First Day

At last Software Freedom Day (SFD) has started !! to day we the organizing team went to college early to prepare thing, we had to get tables, stands and chairs, we also prepared registration lists and hanged the posters. The great thing that people came early and they were excited, actually the number was larger than we expected, we had about 500 registration and about 300 people showed up today, some of them were registered but some made on-site registration.

The day started with an opening that was delivered by Eng.Hamdy Khalil from eSpace, he explained what is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and everyone liked it, then they had a 30 minute break to get the program, register their attends and claim their prizes: bags, CDs and pens.

At 12:30, Eng.Mekkawy also known as linuxawy from EGLUG started his session about the Free Software explaining the Main Four Freedoms, he also gave them his email and asked their questions.

Well after that people made some inquiries at the stands and registered for the study groups which actually have so many registered attendees (almost everyone!!).

If you haven't been there today, you missed alot but don't worry you still can come and join us even if you haven't yet registered.

Getting Close

It's only week before Software Freedom Day !! so we the organizing team made a meeting yesterday discussing what we had done so far and what we should be doing in the coming period. The meeting actually started with bad news about our funding and suddenly we found ourselves having very little time to finish many things, any way after 2 hours of discussion, we found our way out and we made a work plan, each team had a task to finish by night.
Thank God we were able to finish on time because we really want this event to be the best and the biggest in Alexandria.

The speakers in our event differ in their knowledge and backgrounds, we have Eng.Mohamed Sayed from Yahoo!, Abderlahman El KAfil from Morocco, Ahmed Mekkawy from EGLUG and others more.
we have computer security presentations, linux (day to day usage), Open Source and GIS and more, we have also a presentation about Wikipedia along with a stand for the Arabic Wikipedia Team.

So why not register and come with us??
Register here and have the chance of winning one or more of our prizes.

The program is really nice and rich ... check it here

Just Started !!

First Meeting of Software Freedom Day organizers

The time was 10:00 am and the place was one of the classes of Computer Science Department (CSD), Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, the event was the kick off meeting of Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University.

Let's talk about the event it self before we talk about the meeting, it is a two week event that is intended to start at 1st September 2009. The event targets every one, its main goal is not only to introduce Free Software to people but also to give them the real life experience gained by others who started using Free Software and joined Open Source communities along ago.

The Event will mainly consist of presentations and demos covering wide range of topics,
stands providing on site information and installtion, study groups and contests along with other things, so it seems that we have lots of things to do in the coming month, and you have the chance to enjoy two weeks of Free Software Mania.

Back to the meeting, it lasted for about two hours and was started by each one introducing him / her self, then Ahmed Saeed who is the head of coordination team told us everything about the event and explained to us the tasks we should be doing for the coming month. Teams were created and will be led by four coordinators: Ahmed Abd Al Aziz, Asmaa El Sayed, Yasmin Mohammed and Abd Rahman Gamal who all have previous experience in organizing many similar events.

Come and join us, you will enjoy your time and get great knowledge which may change your life forever or at least the technology you use in your daily life.

You can find more information here and you can join our group on facebook.

Check the blog and the facebook group for updated news about the event, See you all there !!