I'll try in this email to dump my info about this topic, so please ask me if anything seems to be missing. In anything other than official info, I'm saying my own openion, not OpenEgypt's official one.
لو أى شخص متضايق من كلامى باللغة الانجليزية يقول. OpenEgypt is an NGO under establishment, with currently 10 founders after the loss of Ali Shaath. This shouldn't be mixed with MCIT FOSS strategy group, which consists of governmental employees, private sector representative, and independant consultants. First, OpenEgypt founders are as follows, in alphabetical order, with due respect: - The late Ali Shaath. - Ahmed ElEzabi. - Ahmed ElHefnawy. - Ahmed Hussein. - Ahmed Mekkawy. - Diaa Radwan. - Haitham Nabil. - Manal Hassan. - Mahmoud Tawfik. - Naglaa Rizk. - Sherif ElKassas. I'm not sure that I'm the best one to introduce everyone of the founders, so I invite everyone of them to introduce himself. But in short I believe that they are all great minds with diversed backgrounds. Currently we have one employee in OpenEgypt, which is Samar Ali, in the role of coordinator. The first coordinator, which was Ahmed Koraiiem, was working on volunteeraly basis. The place is donated from ADEF, the NGO founded by the late Ali Shaath. The fund for OE is till now solely by the founders donations. The agreed amount at first was EGP 5k per founder. Currently OE had spent slightly more than 50% of its money. Spendings are only on Samar's salary, the paper work for establishment of the NGO, and similar stuff. The official name for the NGO is الجمعية المصرية للبرمجيات الحرة, and in english it's OpenEgypt. Till the moment the official establishment was not complete, and here we are back to square zero as the papers has to be all remade, cause of the loss of Ali. But I expect the paper to be smoother as we already got some approvals that should be automatically granted this time. The aim of OE isn't clearly written yet, we are currently working on defining the missing points. The main idea is clear though, it's to work on a strategic direction to create a FOSS ecosystem in Egypt, even if it's a small one in the beginning. This means that OE shouldn't be redoing what users group does, it should rather focus on coordinating their efforts, work with government entities and private sector, and of course universities. This work should be targeting the decision makers rather than targeting users base. This isn't a preference for change, but it's a trial to complete what user groups does and open the closed doors for them. About MCIT group, will send this tomorrow isA. Seems I will have the habit of a daily email to this group ---- Ahmed Mekkawy CTO | Founder Spirula Systems www.spirulasystems.com -- 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.
