Revision of Meeting Minutes (raw) from Sun, 04/07/2004 - 12:19am

This is the raw minutes I took of our first EGLUG meeting, it needs to be summerized in a proper report.

• Sakia Membership (for who'll attend activities held there)
• Courses:
  • arius32 will start graphics courses in August
• Weekly workshop
• Souk El Sakia on Fridays:
  • need 1 person to help with khaled
  • Distro CDs
  • may b t-shirts, meddles
• Sakia will have Wireless Plage in Marina in August
• Weekly sessions (linux support + gathering)
  • make the gathering with a topic??
• Put a dedicated PC in Sakia for ppl who come and ask Khaled for support, so that they ask their questions on the forum
• Advertizing for the weekly gathering/support on our mailing list, Sakia's mailing list
• Weekly session ==> put the support questions on the forum to show the ppl how EGLUG operates
• Off Agenda:
  • How to operate Linux Suppport Sessions (Q: How do I migrate my system to Linux)
  • Make a list of the ppl who want to work (as admins) or can give Linux support (payed)
• Try the courses on ourselves and friends in July, and do it on public in August
• Sameh from CuLUG and Khaled will organize together the courses (instructors, times)
  • Khaled will advertize the courses on Sakia's mailing list (8000 members)
  • Participants in courses should pay Sakia's membership
• We can give Sakia free books to photocopy and sell
• OFF Agenda:
  • Discuss Linux curriculum on the forum
• YoussefAssad and ?? promised to help with Khaled in Souk El Sakia next Friday (9 to 9)
• Weekly Invasion (gathering) Saturday (10-5), LI-6YLUCY has promised to be the facilitator of the day
• kernel_canine has promised to giv a workshop on Firewalls next Wednesday at ??
  • in case he can't do it he will hav to organize an alternative workshop by someone else
• Do or Die: Joker Prince has promised to be the facilitator for the next DoD, it will b translation of the document: From power to bash prompt, they will start at 10
• OFF Agenda:
  • we need to look on the possibility of translating Rute (chapter by chapter for example)
• Alex InstalFest:
  • couldn't get Alex Library or Victoria college (needed tasree7 men wezaret al tarbeya wa al ta3leem)
  • Mina will contact Motaz and talk with Abu Qeer Academy, will giv us feedback by the end of the week.
  • Cvirus and kernel_canine will try to get tasree7 men wezaret al tarbeya wa al ta3leem, will giv us feedback by the end of the week.
  • We need to put the organization on the wiki
• Cooperation with Linux Egypt
  • Policy: we are one community: if they need help we should giv them, if we need help they should giv us
  • we should document our experiences and share it with other LUGs
  • this should b the policy with any LUG in Egypt
• OFF Agenda:
  • Can we publish material licensed under the GPL?
  • Can we publish our own material under the GPL?
  • Free legal support at HMLC (Hisham Mubarak Law Center)
• MENGOS
  • 3 workshops on free software targeting NGOs 12 to 14 July, 19 to 21 July and 2 to 4 August from 9 to 4
  • EGLUG will give a session on Linux
  • we need volunteers to giv these sessions
• OFF Agenda: (points raised by kernel_canine)
  • Why do we do face to face support?
  • Consultancy on EGLUG
  • ??
• Promoting EGLUG:
  • we have 600 mailing lists/forums
  • through the activities done in Sakia
  • Flyers in computer malls (list the shops on our website)
  • Bumper stickers (can Alameya giv us an offer?)
  • financing adverts by symbolic fees taken for the courses (through el Sakia)
  • put flyers in journals
  • Sponsorship??
• OFF Agenda:
  • How to advertize Linux and Free software in universities (in semisters)
  • Poll: which university u r in?, the we choose a coordinator for each university
• Distribution of CDs and books:
  • Goal: 1 new place per month for CDs
  • follow up on the latest releases (buy it from sakia or get it from our distributors list)
  • put them on elwaseet
  • Goal: 1 new place per month for books
  • put the a copy to be photocopied with 3am sa3d
  • print first copy (kernel_canine, Sakia)
  • El Azbakeya
• Editorial policy
  • Simplification of the interface
• Charter:
  • we will hav a poll on the approval of the charter on Tuesday
• Collaborative work on the website, anyone can start a project
• Open CD:
  • kernel_canine has promised to giv khaled a copy of the open cd which they had already arabized at work
• Developers oriented activities:
  • a subgroup??
  • Programming on one of the weekly workshops
• Cross announcements between EGLUG and CuLUG, cross RSS feed

Who attended the meeting:

1. Alaa
2. MohammedSameer
3. Whirlpool
4. YoussefAssad
5. Manal
6. Marlin Tadrus (MENGOS)
7. amg
8. SamehRagheb
9. soppy_boy
10. magdon
11. mina ramses (mina_r_Tux?)
12. Login
13. Copelt (new member who came by accident ;-)
14. mvlinux
15. khaled
16. ahmed
17. CVirus
18. ADminS
19. DarKnesS_Wolf
20. mildewy
21. BooDy
22. Pronco
23. Rocket_Lancher
24. seek_the_reality
25. ahmadtarek
26. samersarhan
27. Joker Prince
28. robertoramsis
29. ramez.hanna
30. LI-6YLUCY
31. phaeronix
32. DJ KING
33. kernel_canine