When?
We need a fixed date. Right now, we're aiming for the beginning of the academic term in September 2006. I suggest to make it 2 weeks after everyone's back, so there's time to advertise it in the GUC.
What?
Let's not call it an InstlalFest. It's an open source awareness event. I suggest the following categories of activities:
Demos
Talks (lecture-format)
- What is open source? (the perspective for CS students)
- What is open culture?
Where?
At the GUC campus. We need to settle where inside, since it's large. Then we get pictures of the location and post them here.
How?
We need two things:
People
Here's where we commit ourselves to this event. Please add yourself to the list.
- YoussefAssad
- DarKnesS_WolF
- Phaeronix
Equipment
This will depend on what we're doing. Each person responsible for an area will be responsible for defining needs. phaeron will be responsible for reviewing people's requirements.
This is page is here to start organization of the GUC install fest in coordination with our contact from GUC, Mr.Motaz
I have taken initiative on this one.
I took the contact's data from Youssef. His name is Mr.Motaz and I spoke to him today. The offer is still valid.
He will be joining us on the wiki page to organize from the GUC's side.
We need at least two months for this. One month for preparing and one month freeze for executing things physically. According tothe GUC that would mean waiting for the summer courses or the beginning of next academic year, so that we have a reasonable amount of attendees (mainly GUC students).
I am in the middle of talking with a gnome developer who might happen to be in Egypt around the time of the install fest. We can have him as an open source figure to give a speech or something.
We have some ideas about the stuff we can demo.
The GUC needs: an exact list of thing that will be done, things that will be needed, and people involved.
Youssef has provided the following : 1. Agree on venue 2. Post photos of venue 3. Agree from what time to what time 4. Agree on getting GUC transportation for volunteers 5. Format; random demos? Presentation? What? 6. How many hours? More than one day?
Most immediately: Highest priority right now: A fixed date. That will help motivate. As soon as we have that, we need a sticky across the front page and a spam to our members.
I will sms this wiki's URL to Mr. Motaz and he should provide us with the date.
Anyone up to formatting this mess ?
Comments
Open Source ?
What's wrong with FOSS ?
i'm in
i'm in guys, i can give demos about programming tools (eclipse,anjuta,mono,etc..) with explaination
Rest In piece (ISA) i'm Known AS : Mnabil
So go add your name to the demos list
Why are you posting down here?
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GUC Side
I will try to fix the date today or by tomorrow max inshsallah, the date has to be after mid of September or something, because students will come back to college on the 5th of Sept. After setting the date, I will expect the requirements from your side, so we can decide on the location for this event. MoUtaz Haddara -- Poushi Sr.
Remember remember..
..the 5th of September So long and thanks for all the fish.
What about it?
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I think we will have
I think we will have enough time
Diaa Radwan
OK, let´s form a task force
let's form a task force of volunteers who will be the event owners, I suggest an owner for each activity who will be in charge of this activity's organization and coordination with other owners and communicate to his activity volunteers. How about that? So long and thanks for all the fish.
I'd Suggest more people
I'd Suggest more people involved on giving ideas ,talks and having the interest to attend ,after having sufficient number of activities we can talk about organizing them.who will be the owner and who will coordinate
Diaa Radwan
Me #1
I think I'll step up to try to organize the whole thing... I got it moving in the first place anyway.
I'll holla if I get stuck or need help.
phaeronix it is
phaeronix would be the event owner, those who disagree shall now speak or forever remain silent. So long and thanks for all the fish.
AFAICT, He's not that free
AFAICT, He's not that free and we can all notice this.
If there's someone else with more free time "Except Diaa", please step in.
Otherwise, I don't personally mind.
PS. Please watch out. September = Possibility to hit Ramadan and Ramadan = me (And probably other members) out.
Veto
I appointed Islam to this position. I gave him the contact, and I have given instructions to our people at the GUC that the only person they should deal with is Islam.
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GUC Date selection
Islam, I spoke with the CS dean and responsibiles here, and they need dates from your side so we can choose the best one that fits us, so you can propose three dates e.g 15th of Sep, 16th etc.. and we can choose one of them according to our students and other events schedule . Is it ok with you guys? Moutaz Haddara -- Poushi Sr.
Already agreed :)
We have pinpointed the following days :
9 or 16 or 23 september. These days are Saturdays that are after the beginning of the academic year, and are before the holy month of Ramadan.
I think this should suit most of our volunteers.
We are waiting for reply about the possibility of widening the scope of the event, through opening it up to the public.
We will then start investigating things like transportation, resource needs.. etc..
INSTALLATION
ana dayes fe ay al installation job :) " Mandriva , Ubuntu " la2n mahebet al shar7 3andy mosh gamda 2we ya3ney :)
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I'd love to be part of it,
I'd love to be part of it, but there's a possibility that I'll be relocating to Germany by the end of August. =( If anything happens I'll keep you updated though.
-A
By the way, I can supply
By the way, I can supply some distribution CDs for free if anyone needs them for install jobs in the fest or making copies for wide distribution. I probably won't be needing them if I'll travel.
A complete list can be found down the "Get GNU/Linux" list of Cairo/Giza. Somewhere down the page you'll find a list under "Ahmed Omran". Contact me at any time =)
-A
Awesome
I personally know some students in GUC who can really help on that day , shall they also sign up in here ?! or shall they only act as GUC staff ?!
Ahmad Omran , Welcome aboard ;)
cheers, DJ KING aka Sameh Y. Sabry
Slacker on Debian
good
GUC students can attend ( naturally ) and bring along their friends. If some of them want to be volunteers, I don't see why they shouldn't. In that case they should add their names here.
Can you ask them about the "Saturday is a holiday, no one is there" issue?
update
16th of semptember is the day. Anyone against this speakup right now, or never.
Anyone else who is interested in participating please add your name.
People already on the list should state what they are interested in doing.
I will try to get us a day, where we can go and see the place in the GUC. and hopefully post back some pictures. This needs two or three people who have some free time and are ready to go a little far.
Meanwhilewe need to make a rough list of resources that we need.
Do we need to activate Darkness_Wolf's spam loop, since this is not a public event ?
Diaa what's the status of your suggested activity ?
a-okay
Would Moutaz mind taking a couple of EGLUGgers down to have a look?
Also, confer with Moutaz to see if it will be open or not. Shouldcdepend on what kind of turnout is expected if it's closed.
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No probs
I wouldn't mind, we can do that at the begining of August, as I am going for holidays from mid till the end of July. And as I said before, Saturdays are not the best, but they are ok if you guys have any other option, we will get students if we publicize well for the event anyway. M. Haddara -- Poushi Sr.
complexity
I'd like to participate in this, but there lots of things here and the whole event looks complex for me. So, can any one simply till me how to choose a task from all of this ?
I'm intersted in the 1st
I'm intersted in the 1st groub "Discussing GNU/Linux in general", any one else intersted in this (what about you Youssef ?)
Yours for the taking
I'm a management bozo; I take the general FOSS intros.
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I can help in installation
I can help in installation and I have Labtop If any one wanna 2 demo something :)
who is taking what?
Many groups are marked TAKEN, now the question is: who is taking what? I think every one should clearly mention his name behind the group that he is concerned with, just like what I did (TAKEN:Khaled Hosny).
and also add his name and
and also add his name and activity to the table, so we have a clear list in the end. And please people try to start adding the things you think you will need to the resources table. PLEASE! We are coming close to the "feature" freeze time.
A new member
hello guys, well, first i'd like to be a member in the group second, i'd like to participate in the event; i think i can help in the following:
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