
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
Wednesday 2005-07-13 | Command line |
Saturday 2005-07-16 | Introduction to python scripting, music applications |
Tuesday 2005-07-19 | Introduction to Drupal session |
Saturday 2005-07-23 | Mail servers |
Saturday 2005-07-30 | web application security |