draft 1st annual meeting minutes

15:00

Alaa started asking if there is problems with the EGLUG website
Members starting saying their opinions about the site design (mdkman)
Debate if we are just a forum for technical support or a platform for making activities
News are published without explaining the locations and other stuff to new visitors
We need someone who is willing to spend some time on the site design and the improvement

We could send email for every event we do. Subscribing to the event mail could be optional
Meeso complains that the site is overloaded with links that makes him confused and he wonders if they can be grouped
Ahmed asks if we could have less than 7 links on the main page
Conceptor asks if we could add a sticky post that links to features of the site
Numbers of nodes to the number of users means that we don't have enough users adding content to the site.

BlueViper says the website is perfect !
whirlpool adds that he finds things confusing for new users and is bored of the colors
Roberto complains that he hates the ta3mya slogan
Alaa asks for the lack of Arabic content and that we don't force a language
Most of us agree that official posts, reports, should be in Arabic some complain that this would be an overhead

InstallFest
Sakia Meeting
Sakia weekly gathering
Do or Die
Courses
Special courses
- Command line
- Debugging
- MySQL
- BIND
- Drupal
- Samba
- Bash scripting
- graphics
- CF engine
- Phaeronix .. the making of a liveCD
Menia courses
Mengos
- sessions in ritsec
- session in AUC
- Conference in Shephard Hotel
- Mansheyet Naser lab
SSTE
Culture and Science Institute in 6th of October City
Arabdev in Menia in Abu Qorqas
Portsaid lifemakers
Alex lifemakers

Preparing the events of a month before hand is more successful
Ezabi suggests that we need more of the members to add content and that only 40 are adding almost all the content on the site

Some are busy and can not join in the gatherings .. others are not very busy yet they don't show up
few says that they need an agenda for what is going to happen

A debate on what we can provide in courses and what people want from us in eglug sessions
the format of the sessions itself
the difficulty of what we as a group we can direct our resources in a professional way

Mtag suggests that we should concentrate more on the Saturday sessions as these would increase our base.

people who attended the courses found it useful
we should announce earlier who is going to volunteer and attend the gatherings of any given month
Ezabi suggests that we put a topic for the saturday gatherings
Sessions would not be suitable on days other than saturday .. because of the work schdule of people willing to give the session
Manal suggests that on Saturdays that few can sit together and work on something.

suggestion about making an activity online
suggestion of new form of activity
Karim suggests a magazine or partnering with a computer magazine to add linux content.

suggestions about authoring linux books .. we can recycle our wiki or build from the ketab linux el shamel

Wednesday 2005-07-13	Command line
Saturday 2005-07-16	Introduction to python scripting, music applications
Tuesday 2005-07-19	Introduction to Drupal session
Saturday 2005-07-23	Mail servers
Saturday 2005-07-30	web application security