Hey, Happy New Year and all dat. Thanks for the details, Mekkawy.
In light of recent clarifications, my question remains: is OpenEgypt supposed to be a community or is it supposed to be a think tank? Because thus far I see many features for a think tank but (nearly?) none for a community. Rayna 2014/1/5 Ahmed Mekkawy <ahmed.mekk...@spirulasystems.com> > 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 <es...@vision-as.com> 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 openegypt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 openegypt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- "Change l'ordre du monde plutôt que tes désirs." http://me.hatewasabi.info/ -- 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 openegypt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
