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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
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
Engage with Resala. This page explains more. Engage with P4Y(Programming for Youth group). We think we can start teaching programming for youngsters. Islam El Wazery and Mohammed Gamal are our main contacts with this group. Ubuntu-eg magazine. We are thinking about creating an e-magazine basically in Arabic for our community. It can be mainly some picked article from the members' blogs. Islam Al Wazery and Anas Emad volunteered for the design and graphics of the magazine. Ubuntu-eg podcast. It is supposed to be a talk show in Arabic about all the geeky stuff in Ubuntu world and our group. Still doesn't have a maintainer yet. Support squad. We are planning to have a team ready to support Ubuntu user in person, not just on mailing lists and IRC. This can only be achieved if the team increases in size. Translating Ubuntu Manual to Arabic. Currently we have limited translation resources, but we can collaborate with other FOSS groups to get this manual translated. Mohamed Saudi volunteered for the job.
Currently planned events
- We are planning for a Linux Workshop in Cairo University SYNC group in Ain Shams University event.
Experience
- Meetings are constantly being organized. Organized Linux summer training for Engineering students @ 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 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.
We have an Ubuntu member.