this the support we need from eglug guys everywhere now.. we need spensors.. we need ones who will pay alongside with ones who will try to help, academic places,.... etc.
we need another thing.. as this event is getting bigger, can our admins offer us a subdomain in eglug (e.g alexmania.eglug.org)?
we want to have suggestions too.. what do you think we can do? as for eglug community i have 3 missions in my mind:
- spensors
- raising the FOSS awareness in egypt in general during this year (the event should be around august 2007)
- advertising about such an event when we get near to its time.
the spensors we have should be confirmed before September 23th as much as we can, this is important cause the evaluation is on that time.. I have a powerpoint presentation ready to demonstrate the event and i'm ready to send it to who wants it.. may be our admins can allow me to upload it here?
at last, the following are the notable speakers in wikimania 2005, 2006:
- Richard Stallman | founder of the Free Software Foundation
- Ward Cunningham | the inventor of the Wiki
- Jimmy Wales | co-founder of Wikipedia
- Brewster Kahle | director and co-founder of the Internet Archive
- Gary Price | Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com
- Eben Moglen | Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center
- Karen Christensen | cofounder and CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group
- Jim Giles | news and features editor for Nature magazine
- Michael Eisen |co-Founder of Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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a new prob
they asked for a single place in alex that can hold upto 300 people.. no hotel can get this number,, we now have 2 places to think of, saint marc school dorms, and mobarak olimpic villege.. both are having problems..
can anyone help with a contact in mobarak olimplic villege or suggest a better place????
Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy
irc organizing channel
irc: #alexmania @ irc.freenode.net
Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy
M$ is not confirmed yet
As requested by Alexandria team I contacted the guy from microsoft and his response was that he needs more time to give us an answer. For now m$ is removed from the possible sponsors list
Death is only the beginning...
we got more companies
we have more companies that we got contacts (names and phone numbers) but we need someone to manage them cause we don't have enough time.. anyone wants to help choose a company and tell me to mail him the contact there. please guys i want support as well as i want eglug to be a real partner in organizing this.. i need your help
Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy
we lost the bid
thank you everyone who tried to help, but i was really disappointed by you eglug guys.. i didn't have any support from you except for boody who tried to help. really disappointed
Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy