Today Cvirus, me and mostafa as3ad attended a meeting with the student activities coordinator of the AUC to arrange possible future cooperation.

First I'd like to thank Mostafa for his efforts in opening this door, and getting the ball rolling. I hope good comes out of this.

The coordinator was very friendly, and she was interested in cooperating with us. There were two possible ways to do this. Either under the umbrella of a continuous effort they have called the ICIT, or under the auspices of their CS department.

Q: I've heard about Linux, but I still don't understand how it can be free.

A: You're talking about the price tag, right? Well, first of all, one reason why it is free is because the people who work on it don't ask for money to do so. This probably sounds a little strange; someone working hard for you for free? It begins to make a little more sense, though, if you try to imagine something like 100 people working together for each other for free: one person contributes only the fruits of his own efforts, but benefits from the efforts of 99 others, in addition to his own. Of course, some people are paid to work on linux, but it is usually through channels such as sponsorship from companies such as IBM.

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The session was attended by six members, excluding Diaa. I had anticipated that no less than ten would come, so I waited until 5:15, then the session started.

My plan was to concentrate on the file formats used in music production (rather than just play-back), and give a brief idea about related pieces of software, besides an introduction to the technologies (and libraries) needed to make all of that possible.

15:00

• Sitting on a green lawn in the sakia's garden
• 25 member, but by the end we where 35

15:30

• Each member is telling how he heared about the group
• Many of the members knew about eglug from the Installfest and word of mouth

• Alaa started asking if there is problems with the EGLUG website
• Members starting saying their opinions about the site design (mdkman)
• Debate if we are just a forum for technical support or a platform for making activities