اسلام، فيه ايميل تانى اتبعت امبارح، اقراه من فضلك
---- Ahmed Mekkawy CTO | Founder Spirula Systems www.spirulasystems.com On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Eslam Farid <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
