I would like to discuss something that has recently come up.
Some people have expressed their interest in helping the open source ideology in Egypt. They would like to know who we can contact on the international level to seek help and guidance.
They would also like to know where it would be best to start? My wild guess was to get the GPL and other Open Source licenses approved by our national ( Egyptian ) patents office, and our courts of law. However absurd that may seem; they believe they are upto such a thing.
If such a non-biased ngo non-profit ( read utopia ) body exists, would eglug agree to being affiliated and supported by it ? Funds, legal, dedicated volunteers, and organisational support would be expected I guess.
Leaving my confidences / paranoias aside , if nothing actually comes out of this let's just argue for the sake of documenting our open dreams ! And guys please let's keep this serious, and will somebody please translate this to arabic?
حد يقدر يترجم الصفحة ديه ؟
Would eglug agree to being affiliated to any body?
I can't seem to recall where I heard this discussion before. So long and thanks for all the fish.
sa7
Iam with ezabi
absolutely agree on the fish part
I Was Known as POSIX
It's a good idea, but very few UG members are thinking straight
I've supported the umbrella org idea for a long time and even had one candidate org., but I cannot pass these things myself.
I spoke with Ezabi and MSameer about it one day, and their response was negative.
And you know, everyone who's saying "we'll lose independence to do things", think for a second. Wha is EGLUG doing now anyhow? Very little if anything at all.
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how they will help us to
if we can answer these questions it might be easy to take decision.
Diaa Radwan
Roll back
People, it's bigger than just FOSS, eglug and its affiliation. The choice of whether we agree or not to be affiliated comes AFTER the existence of such and organisation. Helping create such an organisation would help not only EGLUG, but other open initiatives too. Think "open publications" for example.
Let's first talk about the possible "allies" in Egypt, Middle East, and Internationallt. I had a chat with MSameer and he named a few. I am waiting for him to write it up.
Second thing is "where do we start", MSameer seemed to agree on the licenses part, but being more knowledgable than me in these matters, he prioritized the "Common Creatives" license over the GPL, becasue the GPL is more software centeric.
-- dream on :)
good stuff :) I like the
good stuff :)
I like the part about introducing GPL or CC licenses to Egyptian laws.
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