I'm interested in anything related to Open Source in Mansoura from the technical perspective.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Sherine Bahader <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Open Sourcian, > I am applolgizing as I know that this e-mail should have been sent from > last week but honestly I am so so busy and overloaded. > > We meet with Dr. Salem, Ministry of Communications and Information > Technology, on Wednesday the 21st of December, 2011 and sorry to say that > it wasn't a good :( > > The objective of that meeting was to follow up what was requested from us > in the previous meeting; which was the following: > 1. As Dr. Salem knows that we already have meetings to write a strategy > for Egypt toward open source, he was expecting at least a draft version of > such strategy. > 2. A plan to migrate all entities in Mansoura to open source. > > and Unfortunately after 4 months we failed to do both :( > > I can't blame anyone for that but it is truth, we failed :( > > After the first meeting with Dr. Salem: > 1. We (the group who were in the meeting with Eng. Sally from TIEC) had an > 'on-line voice' meeting and we divided the work such that Eng. Sally > representing TIEC will takeover the strategy issue and ITI represented by > me handle the Mansoura initiative. > > Regarding the Mansoura initiative the following steps were taken: > A meeting with Eslam el Zayat with open source companies to discuss such > initiative and their desire and capabilities to co-operate. > Then I had another meeting with Eslam at ITI Mansoura where we discuss the > following: > A. Culture awareness is needed > B. Open Source Training > C. The migration issue > > A. Regarding the Culture awareness the following the steps were made: > 1. Nozom held in mansoura 2 'One day workshop'; One for Linux and the > other for java > 2. ITI HQ hosted the Second Middle East and Africa Open Source Software > Forum which was sponsored by RedHat and Mandriva. By the way attending the > forum was for free. > 3. In Helwan University, 'Software freedom day ' was held and sponsored > by wikimedia. > > B. Regarding the training > 1. ITI 9-month program opened Open source track in Mansoura aside with > Cairo and Alexandria tracks. > 2. ITI Train of the trainers program will held an open source track in > Mansoura aside with Fayoom, Kafr el Sha7', el 3areesh and south Sinai > > C. Regarding Mansoura Initiative (which is the main problem): > 1. We decided to start with governmental entities related to ministry of > communications as we *thought* it will be easy to penetrate. > So > An inspection visit was made by Eslam el Zayat and Moataz from ITI to > 'central shark' in Mansoura > Another inspection visit was made by Tamer Zaki and me to a post > office > A letter was sent from ITI to Telcom Egypt company to allow us to migrate > the central to open source but the respond came that they are already in > the process of migration and when we need you we will tell you :( > and due to the unstable circumstances of the post we suspend their letter. > > *Regarding the strategy* > Due to location constrains Eng. Sally asked me to call for a meeting in > TIEC for 10-12 persons representing open source community: > So I asked the team who represented us with Dr. Salem in addition to Dr. > Ahmed Hefnawey, Dr. Sherif El Kasas, Eng. Ali Shaath, Eng. Ahmed Hussien, > Eng. Samir el Khayal and Dr. Naglaa Rizek who apologised for not attending. > > The meeting objective was to define a frame work that need to develop in > order to increase the adoption of open source in the public sector. The > output of the meeting that TIEC need to hire a group of 5 persons who will > be fully dedicated to write a strategy for Egypt toward open source and > Dr. Ahmed, Dr. Sherif, Eng. Ali and Eng. Ahmed will be the consultants to > this group. > > All the above were mentioned to Dr. Salem where he became very > disappointed as he though that after 4 month we should have at least a > draft for the Egyptian strategy and a proof of concept model made in > Mansoura city. > > So he mentioned explicitly that all what he need from us now a plan to > migrate Mansoura city to open source, a real plan include millstones, > manpower and costs, and he will give you all my support, and when we *only > * have this plan we are most welcomed to come and discuss it with him and > have all the support we will need.' > > In addition this office set an appointment with Dr. Mohamed abd el Rehim, > Telecom Egypt manager. last Thursday and next Sunday at 11 am we will have > another meeting with Eng. Antar Kandil, technical deputy in Telecom Egypt. > Feel free if anyone would like to attend this meeting, just give me a call. > > > So I need to know who would be interested to cooperate in this Initiative > as it sounds really as our last chance at least till next June. > > Thanks to Eng. Tamir Zaki who wrote the attached file including the steps > that should be taken in the coming few days. Plz feel free to modify in > this document and to call me or send me an e-mail if you are interested to > cooperate. > > Best Regards, > Sherine > 01008845748 > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eng. Sherine Bahader, MBA > Head of OpenSource Technologies Department > Information Technology Institute (ITI) > Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) > Smart Village, 28 Km. Cairo-Alexandria Desert Rd. > > Building B148 > Tel: +202-35355605 > URL: www.iti.gov.eg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Best Regards, *Ahmed Soliman **R&D Manager - Co-founder * *Cloud Niners Ltd. | www.cloud9ers.com * * * *Cellular: (UK) (+44) 207 097 10 13 Cellular: (EG) (+2) 011 402 89 78 Mansoura: (+2) 050 234 70 81 Cairo: (+2) 022 *268 34 60 Fax: (+2) 022 268 34 63 14 Manchester Square, W1U 3PP, London, United Kingdom 4 Abdelhamid Badawy, Sheraton Bldgs, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt * *
