The very first Software Freedom Day held at Menoufia University. SFD is is about educating the public with the benefits of using high quality free and open source software on both beginner and professional levels.

Session Title

• A bit of history
  • RMS and the FSF
  • Linus and the kernel (story)
  • OSI (maybe to know the name)

• The philosophy
• GNU Linux
• Communities
• Current global status

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• A Hacker's Paradise
• What can you do next

Demo for Installing Ubuntu linux 8.10 and Basic GUI usage.

In Faculty of Engineering, Preparatory Building, (m1) lectures hall.

To be presented by Ghada Zakaria, Amr Kamal and co-presenter Ahmed Mekkawy AKA linuxawy

Gnu/Linux Campaign in Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University

Two Info disks will be available daily to introduce Open Source community and Linux to the students, and to talk about EGLUG and it's activities.

During these 10 days, three lectures will be given isA..

First one , Saturday, 29th November at 4 pm, will talk about Open Source and FOSS.

Second one, Wednesday, 3rd Decembe

Introduction to FOSS presented by Ahmed Mekkawy AKA linuxawy in Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University

Place: Faculty of Engineering, Preparatory Building, (m1) lectures hall

Report on Cairo University beginner's course

• Volunteers who participate in this event:

• (Conceptor) Diaa Radwan

• Marwa Youssef

• The GNU/Linux Course was a 3 days course every session was 4 hrs.

• There were about 40 of the SSTE members and the university students to attend this course so we had to divide the course into 2 courses we were going to make the second course later but we had to make it the next week Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday as the supervisor Dr.prof Mahmoud Taher El-Hadedy meet us the last day and thanked EGLUG for this course and asked us to finish the course urgently within these 2 weeks so we didn't want to dissappoint him, In the first course there were 20 attendee and the rest of them will attend the upcoming course .

according to osnews.com " founder and chief architect of the popular Linux distribution Gentoo Daniel Robbins, has taken up a job at Microsoft" woooooow way to go gentoo

Start of the cooperation with the Menia University as part of the ArabDev project.

EGLUG volunteers will be giving a course to 12 Teaching Assistants from the faculty of Computer Science, the faculty of Science and the faculty of Engineering (Communication departement).

Alaa, Manal and MohammedSameer will b

Eglug volunteers who participated in the event:

1. Manal
2. Alaa

1st day

we took the 7:15 train from Cairo and arrived in el Menya @ 10:20. we were staying at The Gam3eyet El Sa3eed hotel in Abu Qurqas, so we decided to have breakfast first in Menya then head to Abu Qurqas.

We met a fellow Linux user from Menya (Dr. Ahmed), who knew us from the photos, he invited us to breakfast and we had a small talk on how EGLUG can help in doing a seminar about FOSS in the Menya university, which Dr. Ahmed and his collegues will try to organize.

The 4th visit to Menya as part of the project with ArabDev.

The EGLUG volunteers this time will be: Alaa, Manal and MohammedSameer.

The first day, we'll go to the schools to get feedback from the teachers, and configure the pcs (especially the arabic interface and fonts).