مازلت في انتظار الكلام هنا.. جزاكم الله خيرا.
On Wednesday, 1 January 2014 13:53:35 UTC+3, Eslam Farid wrote: > > شكرا يا أحمد وفي انتظار اني أسمع منك، وأرجوا فعلا انك تكتب بالعربي .. > جزاك الله خيرا. > > On Tuesday, 31 December 2013 19:57:45 UTC+3, Ahmed Mekkawy 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.
