Revision of Preparation for the FOSS and Development conference from Tue, 08/03/2005 - 1:32am

only few days to the conference.

as everything is left to the last possible moment.

what do we need to do?

• Presentations for the 2nd Day
• Demonstrations for the 3rd day
• Pamphlets

apart from that we'll need volunteers to be present early everyday to prepare the place, the computers, the network etc.

Presentations

Opening (brief intro to FOSS) (15 minutes)

Manal will open the 2nd day with a quick rehash of what is FOSS, and what are the FOSS offerings, this is just laying the ground for the presentations that will follow

• the GNU/Linux system
• cross platform FOSS application
• FOSS in servers
• FOSS and the desktop
• who is using it and for what

The FOSS Desktop (30 minutes)

(Phaeron?) will take take a few minutes to present the FOSS desktop and office offerings, and highlight professional desktop apps such as Gimp, inkscape etc

Arabization (30 minutes)

MohammedSameer will give a briefing on the current arabization efforts, what is done, what is missing and what needs to be done (focus is off course on the desktop)

The FOSS Web Publishing platform

Alaa(and who else?) will give a long presentation on dynamic websites, content management systems and present an example of a personal publishing platform (WordPress), a Community CMS (Drupal) and an enterprise CMS (Typo3).

Affordable computing

RamezHanna (and who else?) will give a long presentation on how FOSS can make computing cheaper, he will cover

• low resource desktop software like abiword, gnumeric etc
• thin clients
• FOSS multimedia authoring software (typically these are too expensive for individuals and small organizations)
• Enterprise software (SQLLEdger, PHP Project, etc) (used to be only the big companies could afford them)

we hope Ezabi will also present FOSS VoIP stuff

Hands On demonstrations

• Hula Server - whirlpool offered to do that, but he needs help installing it, phaeron can you do it?
• Asterisk - Ezabi can you do that
• Drupal - Manal can do that
• WordPress - Manal can do that
• Typo3 - Alaa can do that
• Thin Clients - Alaa can do that
• Desktop (knoppix) - anyone can do that
• Graphics software - whirlpool can do that
• Phaeronix - phaeron off course
• SQLLedger - who??
• PHProject - who??

what else?

we can have more than one person ding the same demo, so please volunteer, and please add ideas

CDs

• OpenCD 2.0 , with arabic interface (thanks DarknessWolf, Boody and whirlpool) and extra software in place of the blender videos
• Knoppix

whirlpool did the covers for the cds

Pamphlets

• About EGLUG (needs updating)
• a short intro to FOSS and GNU/Linux (adapt the installfest pamphlets into a shorter document maybe)

Laptops

we will have 8-10 pcs, but ho knows maybe we'll need more so please anyone who can bring a GNU/Linux laptop list yourself here

• Alaa
• Manal
• DJ-King
• MohammedSameer
• Ezabi
• Conceptor

we will have a wireless lan so we should have a very flexible setup

Volunteers

we need all sorts of volunteers, to give presentations, answer questions, setup computers, setup lan, help in organization etc. please volunteers list yourselves here

1. Alaa
2. Manal
3. DJ-King
4. MohammedSameer
5. Ezabi
6. Whirlpool
7. Phaeron
8. Boody?
9. Conceptor?
10. Marwa?
11. DarknessWolf?

volunteers will be wearing special EGLUG tshirts, design by whirlpool