Hi there, I have recently joined the group, after learning about it from Ahmed Mekkawy. You can see my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/unixmechanic I am very excited about this group, I strongly believe in its mission, and I am excited to see that there is even a level of reciprocation in the post-revolution Egypt albeit not where we need it to be. I think we have a tremendous opportunity AND responsibility to bring the FOSS philosophy to Egypt and there are so many venues, ways and approaches(top->down, Bottom->Up, mandatory, collaborative,etc.etc.) and there are so many motives to do this for Egypt and her people(economic at different levels, nationalistic, humanitarian level, etc). I think most on the list would agree with these statements.
What I have noticed so far though is a bit of dispersed efforts, and many threads that or may not be related. we may need to do better categorization, or some ITIL guys would want to do a process review or something but as people who believe in rapid and disruptive technologies I would propose we go AGILE with this effort. There are certainly high level, abstract, multi-year goals that we all want, but it is the conversion of these EPICs to smaller , crispier, more concrete goals that would help us keep moving. Humans often want to see a ROI: we, or the government, or 3rd party institutions want to see something done and feel that there is progress. If we can organize our efforts a little better, write a few EPIC goals that could be long running, then start breaking them down to smaller stories or tasks and take those smaller bits, and put them in an iteration and work hard to try to achieve them and at each iteration , take some time to review our progress , our pitfalls and how we can improve in the next iteration and continuously keep our backlog of ideas so that near the end of iteration we could re-prioritize our next iteration. Keep focused, determined and have small enough targets to achieve in a short period. I will stop here, and hope to hear from everyone then we could discuss how we can organize this gigantic effort, and start building our EPICs and who can do what, what tools to use and so on. Thank you for all the efforts put so far, and I hope I could contribute to a better , more open Egypt. Regards Mohamed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenEgypt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
