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The Ubuntu-eg has started to be a key player in the FOSS communities here in Egypt. We seek to get recognized and help other FOSS and LUG groups. We provide support in both Arabic and English languages. We constantly distribute CDs and printed material advocating Ubuntu and free software.

We aim to make Ubuntu a defacto standard through teaching it in universities so graduated student can have mentalities oriented towards Ubuntu/Linux and FOSS, hence growing up our community in Egypt and spread Ubuntu more faster.

Key Details

• Date - 9th of March 2012

• Team Contact

  • Ahmed Toulan

• Membership - 269 launchpad members

• Homepage - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam

• Mailing List

  • ubuntu-eg on lists.ubuntu.com (280 subscribers)

• IRC - #ubuntu-eg on Freenode

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/ubuntueg (679 followers)

• Facebook

  • Page (3000 likes)

  • Group (1148 members)

• Linkedin Group

  • Linkedin Group (130 members)

• Team Reports

  • Team Reports

Social Media

We have a lot of social media channels which are mentioned before, and here are some insights from our Facebook page which has about 3000 likes.

Ubuntu Members

• Our list of Ubuntu members in the team is growing. We have now about 7 Ubuntu members.
  • Ahmed Toulan
  • Ahmed Shams
  • Ahmed Kamal
  • Seif Lotfy
  • Omar Mohsen
  • Islam Wazery

Roadmap

• Our roadmap is simply advocate, promote, translate and improve Ubuntu...

Advocate...

• Seize every chance to introduce Ubuntu in public. Most of our members - if not all - are involved in other LUGs and NGOs, so whenever an event is held, we spread the word of Ubuntu as it's the best Linux distribution for humans.
• Utilize our members' contacts with media to expose Ubuntu to Egyptians, and cover our events in TV/radio shows, newspapers and magazines.

Promote...

• Teach Ubuntu in any possible sector. Examples:

  • Universities

    • Summer training course in Faculty of Engineering Cairo University (Details)

    • Ubuntu workshop Faculty of Engineering Cairo University (Details)

    • Introduction to FOSS and Qt programming in Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University (Details)

  • Education Centers

    • Resala education center (Wikipedia page); coordination in progress (Idea in pool)

    • P4Y (Facebook page); coordination in progress (Idea in pool)

  • And more to come...

• Install festival/Release party every new Ubuntu release

  • A big event where 4 or more sessions are running repeatedly in parallel to guide the audience to the gateway of Ubuntu (installing, using and programming).
  • Also other sessions may be presented about specific open source software like Blender, Drupal and Inkscape... etc.
  • Installers squad to install Ubuntu on attendees computers.

• Help organizations and corporates to migrate to Ubuntu

  • Introduce open source idea, and its benefits.
  • Introduce alternative open source software solutions
  • Suggest companies to implement migration processes
  • Train staff

    'Examples:'

    • Resala; coordination in progress. (Idea in pool)

    • Sekem (Wikipedia) coordination with Mr. Stephan Hermann at Linux4Africa and contacting Sekem themselves is in progress.

• Ubuntu-EG magazine

  • An arabic e-magazine for our community that has some picks from our blogs in our LoCo portal

• Ubuntu-EG Podcast

  • An Arabic talk show about all Ubuntu's news and our community news

• Ubuntu-EG Youtube Group

  • A Youtube group channel with illustrative videos about various stuff in Ubuntu

• Online technical support

  • Our members to support Ubuntu users in both Arabic and English languages at all available support channels (IRC channels like #Ubuntu and #Ubuntu-eg, mailing list, forums...etc.)

• Supporters squad

  • A mobile team ready to support Ubuntu users all over Egypt, by phone or visits, not just on mailing lists, forums or IRC. (List)

• Media distribution

  • A fully updated/upgraded remastered Ubuntu LiveCD with extra packages installed (video/audio codecs, language packs...etc or any other specific packages for specific event or occasion) to be distributed for free in any event or occasion. Also a partial mirror of Ubuntu archives for those who have enough free space and don't have fast Internet access.

• Finding sponsors/Fund raiser events

  • Seeking an Ubuntu believer company to sponsor our events and provide contacts in order to engage with business market, governmental sectors and education institutes...etc.

Translate...

• Translate ubotto factoids into Arabic.

• Translate community documentation wiki pages into Arabic.

• Translate Ubuntu manual into Arabic.

  • This will be done either by translating whole projects or collaborating with other FOSS groups depending on how many translators volunteered

Develop and Improve...

• Encourage our members to contribute by writing articles in Ubuntu community documentation and our portal

• Encourage others to contribute by reporting bugs, introducing Launchpad.net and bugs utilities is the key. All explained here

• Always encourage new comers to open source their code for a better quality and more powerful software.

• Developers in our LoCo to give sessions to our members about packaging and PPAs in Launchpad.net

Sub Teams

• We are improved our team structre (blueprint link) and created some sub teams for acting as focus groups and here are some of them:

Experience

# A number of training sessions for Qt, Python and Graphics on Ubuntu, please have a look on team reports.

• Meetings are being organized. They are both online and phsycal meetins.

• Organized and partnered with other communities in a number of events (these are just exampels kindly check the detailed list for more information):

  • Partnerships:

    • Ubuntu-Eg participation at Open Source Day in Mansourah.

    • Partnership and team members existence during the conference.

    • Ubuntu-EG Media-Partnered with noZom, in delivering the biggest event in Nile Delta, The Rowad Conference.

  • Organized:
    • Global Jams

      • 2011-09-02 Ubuntu Global Jam.

      • 2012-03-02-Ubuntu-Global-Jam.

    • Release Parties and Install Fests

      • LoCo's Release Party at Cairo University.

      • Shrouck Academy Install fest.

      • Alexandria release party for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat.

      • Cairo release party for Maverick Meerkat.

    • Sessions

      • 2010-07-03-SummerTraining.

      • 2010-07-24-CUFE-Linux-Workshop.

      • 2011-07-08-EmbeddedLinuxSessions1.

      • 2011-07-23-EmbeddedLinuxSessions2.

      • 2011-07-30-EmbeddedLinuxSessions3.

      • 2011-08-06-EmbeddedLinuxSessions4.

      • 2011-08-20-EmbeddedLinuxSessions5.

      • 2011-08-08-QtDevelopment1.

      • 2011-08-17-QtDevelopment2.

      • 2011-08-17-QtDevelopment2.

      • 2011-08-17-QtDevelopment2.

    • Workshops
  • Sponsored

    • SimplyUbuntu book. An Arabic book for the normal unexperienced users.

• Created the team website.

• Getting involved with local LUG and technical groups.

  • Ahmed Toulan gave a session about desktop programming using Qt in an EGLUG event.

  • Mohamed Zaian gave a session about "How to setup a webserver in 10 mins on Linux" in an EGLUG event.

  • Mohamed Saudi gave a session about "How to install Ubuntu" in an EGLUG event.

  • Mohamed Gamal gave a session about "Git version control system" in Mansoura CAT community. Watch video.

  • Islam Wazery gave a workshop on Gimp for IShare community.

  • Abdallah Hodaib gave a workshop on Python for IShare community.

• We have about 7 Ubuntu members.

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