Approval Application for Ubuntu Egypt (ubuntu-eg)

The Ubuntu-eg as 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.

Key Details

• Date - 12th of July 2010

• Team Contact

  • Ahmed Toulan

  • Mohammed Zaian

• Membership - 141 launchpad members as of 20th of July 2010

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

• Mailing List

  • ubuntu-eg on lists.ubuntu.com (191 subscribers as of 12th of July 2010)

• IRC - #ubuntu-eg on Freenode

Roadmap

CUFE Linux course

• As a part of our Social Responsibilities, Ubuntu-EG team is currently preparing for a course to raise the awareness of Cairo University Faculty of Engineering (CUFE) students about open source and software freedom. The course, walks its participants through many essential points to make the "Free Software Conversion" as smooth and easy as possible. However, Ubuntu is the base of this converstion, points discussed in this course include :

Course Content

• GUI walk through (Gnome basically with some examples of othe DEs)

  program alternatives.

  Linux system structure (i.e. what does /home, /proc, etc. do?!)

  File permissions.

  CLI basics (cd, ls, chown, ... etc.)

  SSH

  programing under Linux

  installing LAMP and basics on using it.

Open Day open for everyone to attend--even without attending the course itself

• FLOSS philosophy

  Howto get help from the community (report bugs, ask for support ....)

  Establishing your online reputation!

Also one notable point about this course is that it is delivered free-of-charge to remove any boundaries that could keep students from starting their journey with software freedom.

people who made this course possible

• Mahmoud Fawzy

• Mahmoud Ibrahim

• Mohamed sherief

Experience

• Meetings are constantly being organized.

  Organized Linux summer training for Engineering student @ Cairo University. Event temp page.

  Created the team website.

  Organized Lucid Lynx Cairo Release party.

  • A variety of sessions was given to provide a good start with Ubuntu and FOSS.

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

  We have an Ubuntu member.