draft 1st annual meeting minutes

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
• News are published without explaining the locations and other stuff to new visitors
• We need someone who is willing to spend some time on the site design and the improvement

15:45

• We could send email for every event we do. Subscribing to the event mail could be optional
• Meeso complains that the site is overloaded with links that makes him confused and he wonders if they can be grouped
• Ahmed asks if we could have less than 7 links on the main page
• Conceptor asks if we could add a sticky post that links to features of the site
• Numbers of nodes to the number of users means that we don't have enough users adding content to the site.

16:00

• BlueViper says the website is perfect !
• whirlpool adds that he finds things confusing for new users and is bored of the colors
• Roberto complains that he hates the ta3mya slogan
• Alaa asks for the lack of Arabic content and that we don't force a language
• Most of us agree that official posts, reports, should be in Arabic some complain that this would be an overhead

tarateer

16:15

cake time Happy Birthday EGLUG !!!

17:45

Assesment of the activities done last year

Alaa, Manal and Whirlpool are listing the activities we made last year

• InstallFest
• Sakia Meeting
• Sakia weekly gathering
• Do or Die
• Courses
• Special courses
  • Command line
  • Debugging
  • MySQL
  • BIND
  • Drupal
  • Samba
  • Bash scripting
  • graphics
  • CF engine
  • Phaeronix .. the making of a liveCD
• Menia courses
• Mengos
  • sessions in ritsec
  • session in AUC
  • Conference in Shephard Hotel
  • Mansheyet Naser lab
• SSTE
• Culture and Science Institute in 6th of October City
• Arabdev in Menia in Abu Qorqas
• Portsaid lifemakers
• Alex lifemakers

Sakia as the biggest and best partner

Discussing what we wanted to do last year but didn't manage to achieve.

• CD and Book distribution in a shop
• Alex InstallFest
• Share
• Arabization of drupal
• Editorial policy
• InstallFest in May

• Preparing the events of a month before hand is more successful
• Ezabi suggests that we need more of the members to add content and that only 40 are adding almost all the content on the site

• Some are busy and can not join in the gatherings .. others are not very busy yet they don't show up
• few says that they need an agenda for what is going to happen

• A debate on what we can provide in courses and what people want from us in eglug sessions
• the format of the sessions itself
• the difficulty of what we as a group we can direct our resources in a professional way

17:15

• Mtag suggests that we should concentrate more on the Saturday sessions as these would increase our base.

• people who attended the courses found it useful
• we should announce earlier who is going to volunteer and attend the gatherings of any given month
• Ezabi suggests that we put a topic for the saturday gatherings
• Sessions would not be suitable on days other than saturday .. because of the work schdule of people willing to give the session
• Manal suggests that on Saturdays that few can sit together and work on something.

17:30

Saturday

• 15:00 - 17:00 informal gathering
• 17:00 - 19:00 formal session

people who will attend the informal gathering in July 2005

• Cvirus anytime
• Mtag, Roberto 23 only
• MyAnywhere anytime
• Whirlpool
• not registered Karim Mahmoud

• suggestion about making an activity online
• suggestion of new form of activity
• Karim suggests a magazine or partnering with a computer magazine to add linux content.

17:45

Activities details:

• Do or Die
  • How to translation
  • Online do or die (drupal localization)
  • Clustering
  • Thin clients
  • discovering AJAX

• Suggestion to build on an existing FOSS and improve it (programming)
• some suggestion about some music applications session Hosam adeeb
• podcasting suggestion

18:10

sessions

• publishing applications .. Lyx, DocBook
• firewalls
• MySQL
• Debugging
• GUI programming for C
• Command line
• Scripting
• Astersik session
• PHP
• drupal
• Postfix and sasl Mail servers
• Nagios
• Java programming and Eclipse
• Java script + DOM + Mozilla

18:20

Ezabi suggests Linux courses for children around 14 years old

• suggestions about authoring linux books .. we can recycle our wiki or build from the ketab linux el shamel

July Sessions Schedule