MENGOS Conference: Call for volunteers | The Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group

Submitted by Manal on Tue, 25/01/2005 - 18:24.

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Center for Knowledge Society is planning a three days FOSS conference from ~~7-9~~ 13-15 March 2005.

1st day: ( 10 a.m to 5 p.m 6 p.m to 10 p.m )

Panels on: FOSS in development covering:

FOSS as a tool in development
challenges facing FOSS, and case studies
Intellectual property

2nd day: (6 p.m to 10 p.m)

technical presentation on specific FOSS technologies, solutions and opportuinites for development

Status of FOSS desktop and arabization
FOSS web publishing platform
FOSS and universal access

3rd day: mini FOSS expo (6 p.m to 10 p.m)

where we bring together all interested parties:

companies offering FOSS based services
companys using FOSS
NGOs using FOSS
developers
Academics interested in FOSS
FOSS communities
etc.

each will present their work and may be we can have round table discussions and handson technical demonstrations)

we want volunteers to help with the organization, administration, promotion and other meta work.

we also need volunteers to give technical demonstrations..

we need speakers for the first 2 days, so if u can do a presentation or know someone who can, plz contact us

finally, if u know of or represent any company or organization, using FOSS or offering FOSS services, plz let us know so we can invite them to join the mini expo.

I'll keep u updated with the details.

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Strange! I thought that vo

Submitted by MSameer on Wed, 26/01/2005 - 02:02.

Strange!

I thought that volunteers should post here, Not to contact via mail ??

I'm not also sure whether senior users should ask people to contact info@eglug.org, I thought that when someone is asking something they might by answered like that, But not when organizing something, And I should that since you are asking people to contact anyone for a conference organized by mengos the email should be info@mengos.net NOT info@eglug.org

Also, Since when do we organise things that way ? everything should be OPEN to the cmmunity and organized on the website not via info@eglug, This is returning us to the dark ages IMHO.

-- I was known as Uniball!
WWW: http://www.foolab.org/
Quote "c u next life time then when i come back as a mug of tea :P"

speakers should contact by email

Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 26/01/2005 - 08:00.

> we need speakers for the first 2 days, so if u can do a presentation or know someone who can, plz contact us

speakers CAN contact by email, this is not for volunteers, this would be more convenient for most candidate speakers.

I mean if you know someone who might want to present at the conference then you can tell them send an email to info@eglug.org which is probably easier than teeling them register and post a comment on eglug.

besides nothing in the post says you should send an email, it says contact us, contact us i a link to the email, but if you contact US in anyother manner thats fine.

cheers,
Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

i am here

Submitted by ramez.hanna on Wed, 26/01/2005 - 09:47.

i want to volunteer for this event as i did with other events with mengos and eglug
also i represent a company that provides FOSS services and do programming in the open source way we already have our application which will be posted on sourceforge soon.
as for the speakers part i can do that and someone from our company can do it too.
let's start working . . . VIVA la FOSS

the best things in life are free --- so as myself

i hope so

Submitted by UnTouchAble on Fri, 28/01/2005 - 02:31.

salamo 3alekom i've sent my CV to you and i hope to join u in this event my mail is ahmad.ahmadsayed@gmail.com

I'm in

Submitted by BooDy on Fri, 28/01/2005 - 20:25.

My presentation skills suck I'm a bad organizer I use winlinux as my main linux distro but hey, I wanna contribute :P

seriously I'm in :)

any updates? ---------------

Submitted by ramez.hanna on Tue, 01/02/2005 - 14:43.

any updates?

the best things in life are free --- so as myself

not really

Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 00:02.

at the moment we're just trying to collect people to contact.

I think we should set up a wiki for the event and start real planning, time is very tight afterall.

the moment the folks at Center For Knowledge Society book a place they should start sending invitation letters.

but if you've got any ideas itching you now please share

cheers,
Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

well i awas having some thoug

Submitted by ramez.hanna on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 13:07.

well i awas having some thoughts and some quesrtions
like is there any idea about the schedule i mean what does it contain ? will it be sessions only or there will be hands on tutorials or maybe hands on demos
what about sponsoring ? someone maybe interested in sponsoring, what should he do?
i think having sessions on FOSS applications like drupal or maybe SQLledger (tools that are needed by companies not just desktops) could be motivating
what do you think guys?

the best things in life are free --- so as myself

some answers

Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 15:59.

the format is to have

panels on the first day (meaning people will take about generic issues not particular technologies).
technicl presentation on the second day (this is stuff done on a projector with a speaker and people sittin down, it should be about useful tech, stuff like drupal and SQL ledger certainly has a place here, but remember only 4 hours in the second day).
3rd day will have handson presentations done for small groups gathered around a table.

the topics for the 1st day are fixed in stone more or less the 2nd day they're negotiable but IMO the topics chosen are the ones that make most sense for the theme of the conference (FOSS and development)

the 3rd day is not fixed at all, each company is free to present what it wants, and is expected to advertise its services and products, EGLUG volunteers should present other tools, solutions and techs.

keep the excellent ideas coming

BTW folks do you think we should setup a proper wiki to organize this, or is the drupal book module good enough for now?

cheers,
Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

BTW folks do you think we sho

Submitted by Hossam (not verified) on Wed, 09/02/2005 - 01:24.

BTW folks do you think we should setup a proper wiki to organize this, or is the drupal book module good enough for now?

Many minor problems. A better CMS should be installed, if you asked me.

Cheers, Hossam

hossam if you think we need a

Submitted by Alaa on Fri, 11/02/2005 - 16:51.

hossam if you think we need a better CMS in general please post about it on the forum since this is not related to this topic.

the question at hand is if we need a seperate wiki for organizing major events.

you can check out how we organized the last installfest on the historical wiki

cheers,
Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

I'm in

Submitted by Hossam (not verified) on Wed, 09/02/2005 - 01:20.

I'm in, hopefully.

Cheers, Hossam

Final Date

Submitted by Manal on Sat, 12/02/2005 - 14:15.

The date of the conference changed and is now 13-15 March 2005, due to maintanece of the hall :S

This date is final.

http://www.manalaa.net

More details

Submitted by Manal on Sat, 12/02/2005 - 14:17.

The conference will be held in Shepard Hotel, Omar el Khayam hall.

1st day will start at 10 a.m and end on 5 p.m 2nd day and 3rd day will start at 6 p.m and end on 10 p.m

http://www.manalaa.net

Count me in for this too

Submitted by phaeronix on Tue, 15/02/2005 - 20:26.

March has some slack on my schedule. Please assign me to something here.

of course

Submitted by Manal on Wed, 16/02/2005 - 00:06.

of course u can show/demo phaeronix on the Mini-Expo.

also if u can help with any of the presentations of the second day.

http://www.manalaa.net

I'm IN !

Submitted by DJ KING on Thu, 17/02/2005 - 05:29.

The One & Only DJ KING is IN !!

lol

and hey , it is the 17th of feb and i think we have to start getting ready for the even ..

keep it real homies

Dj King is right.

Submitted by phaeronix on Thu, 17/02/2005 - 13:21.

let's get together to discuss the organisation of this event. Not next week please I have three exams. If you must, start next week then please keep this page updated with any agreements.

at the moment

Submitted by Alaa on Thu, 17/02/2005 - 18:43.

we are contacting companies to participate in the Mini Expo.

and we're waiting for Center For Knowledge society to come up with a list of speakers for the 1st day.

if you have anyone in mind who you think we should invite to the expo or you think should be a speaker in the panels please tell us.

if you've got a topic you want to present at the conference send an abstract.

meanwhile we can discuss what to present on the 2nd day.

cheers,
Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

time update

Submitted by Manal on Tue, 22/02/2005 - 15:12.

the first day will start at 6 p.m and end at 10 p.m, same as the other 2 days.

http://www.manalaa.net

Designs

Submitted by Manal on Sun, 27/02/2005 - 18:02.

Whirlpool has promissed to design the covers for the 2 cds that we'll be distributing, which are: the OSS cd for windows and Knoppix 3.7 live cd.

He'll also update the t-shirt design for the EGLUG volunteers.

thx whirlpool :-)

http://www.manalaa.net

People start commiting

Submitted by phaeronix on Tue, 01/03/2005 - 14:28.

time is precious and it's ticking away.

I am interested in :

2nd day : Arabic related FOSS. I think the best candidate to lead this one is Uniball, with all his great experience on the subject. He has other thoughts and refused to commit to it on the IRC.

3rd day : The developers part. OneOfOne and I came up with the idea of how the opensource model allowed people to make patches for the kernel, some of which are really great for desktop performance. He too refused to commit.

3rd day : Phaeronix session , if anyone is interested. manal suggested this. I am all for it but don't think I am selfish or anything.

I hope Uniball and OneOfOne take up these tasks and I'll help.

I don't think that I'm that b

Submitted by MSameer on Sat, 05/03/2005 - 00:45.

I don't think that I'm that brave to stand u and give a speech/presentatin while I don't know all of the people ;-)

BTW: I assume since there are no updates that there are no speakers for the 1st 2 days ? Or am I wrong ?

-- I was known as Uniball!
WWW: http://www.foolab.org/
Quote "c u next life time then when i come back as a mug of tea :P"

How are you supposed to know

Submitted by phaeronix on Sat, 05/03/2005 - 07:43.

How are you supposed to know all the people when it's a confrence.

Did you know all the people in the install fest?

and if you prepare a good start for your presentation, it's gonna flow easily for the rest of the time. Just put your tongue where your heart is..

alaa, manal.. any updates on the status?

is there no wiki for this?

Well, I didn't give a present

Submitted by MSameer on Sat, 05/03/2005 - 16:35.

Well, I didn't give a presentation in the install fest.

And It seems that I won't be giving this year too !

Well, I don't think I can stretch my tongue to reach my heart position !

-- I was known as Uniball!
WWW: http://www.foolab.org/
Quote "c u next life time then when i come back as a mug of tea :P"

There are speakers

Submitted by Manal on Sat, 05/03/2005 - 23:52.

yes there are speakers for the 1st day, but the list is not final yet, I'll post about a more fixed list of speakers tomorrow.

http://www.manalaa.net

Updates

Submitted by Manal on Sun, 06/03/2005 - 00:05.

Whirlpool will have the cd faces ready Monday morning, I'll go to burn them Monday evening and they'll be ready by wednesday.

I need to know a lot of stuff:

who are the volunteers for the conference, I know some of you will attend the conference representing their companies, but I need to know who will attend as EGLUG volunteers because we need to prepare the t-shirts.
I think we should prepare a small pamphlet about what is FOSS and what is Linux (with the knowledge that the main target group of the conference are NGOs)
What's the state of the open cd translation, does it need revising?
we need to update the EGLUG about page and mention the activities and projects that we were involved/attended lately.
Who is doing what on the 2nd day?
what are the demonstrations that we'll do on the third day, we'll be able to have computers (maximum 10), and the hall will be opened all the day, so whoever is doing a demo can come earlier and setup/configure whatever they'll do.
What else?

http://www.manalaa.net

Manal , i would really like

Submitted by DJ KING on Sun, 06/03/2005 - 01:05.

Manal , i would really like to help .. just let me know how can i help so i get ready .. it doesnt matter , even if you need me to help people finding seats :) but if you need something technical , please let me know so i can read or get my self ready to present something

cheers,
DJ KING aka Sameh Y. Sabry

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1st day: ( 10 a.m to 5 p.m 6 p.m to 10 p.m )

2nd day: (6 p.m to 10 p.m)

3rd day: mini FOSS expo (6 p.m to 10 p.m)

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