Dear all, Let me utilize this opportunity to wish to all of you a wonderful starting 2014 ,, Happy new year
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Ahmed Mekkawy < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- *Kind regards Asmaa Ghieth Business Intelligence consultant. MBA, International Scope* *Business Analyst professional Certified * *M.a Economic Geo. ESRI Certified Instructor* -- 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.
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