This application was reviewed on 20th of March 2012. Please check the meeting log for details.

Ubuntu-eg team has started to be a key player in the FOSS communities here in Egypt. We seek to get recognized and help other FOSS and LUG groups. We provide support in both Arabic and English languages. We constantly distribute CDs and printed material advocating Ubuntu and free software.

We aim to make Ubuntu a defacto standard through teaching it in universities so graduated student can have mentalities oriented towards Ubuntu/Linux and FOSS, hence growing up our community in Egypt and spread Ubuntu more faster.

Key Details

Statistics: Social Media

We have a lot of social media channels which are mentioned before, and here are some insights from our Facebook page which has about 2867 likes.

Ubuntu Members

• Our list of Ubuntu members in the team is growing. We have now 6 Ubuntu members.

  • Ahmed Toulan

    Ahmed Shams

    Ahmed Kamal

    Seif Lotfy

    Omar Mohsen

    Islam Wazery

Roadmap

• We are engaged now in working on a new team structure that would allow new comers to pick up quickly the methods of our community and start working directly with the team. Another thing we started is the usage of Launchpad to track our tasks to avoid having tons of emails and phone calls. (It's still a work in progress and is subject to change)

• Launchpad project.

• New team structure. The structure can be summarized in the following graph:

• N00b: Refers to a new comer.
• Orientation: A small event we gather all new comers to know more about our team structure and our methods.(Can be online or offline)
• FG: At that point the N00b can join a Focus Group to directly start working with the team.
• Ubuntu-eg members: Which allows him/her to vote in any elections.

• Creation of sub-teams to allow people of common interest in the team to meet and work together. Also, sub-teams will be responsible for providing learning guide for the specific task of every team. We are currently creating teams on need basis.

  • Ubuntu Egypt Art

  • Ubuntu Egypt Devel

  • Ubuntu Egypt Marketing

  • Ubuntu Egypt Support Squad

Experience

• Meetings are being organized. They are both online and physical meetings.

• Organized and partnered with other communities in a number of events (these are just exampels kindly check the detailed list for more information):

  • Partnerships:

    • Ubuntu-Eg participation at Open Source Day in Mansourah.

    • Partnership and team members existence ArabNet during the Cairo conference. ArabNet is the hub for digital professionals and entrepreneurs to connect and learn.

    • Partnership with ArabNet in their upcoming summit.

    • Ubuntu-EG Media-Partnered with noZom, in delivering the biggest event in Nile Delta, The Rowad Conference.

    • Ubuntu-EG partnered with Java Developer Conference.

  • Organized:
    • Social events

      • Ramadan Iftar

    • Global Jams

      • 2011-09-02 Ubuntu Global Jam.

      • 2012-03-02-Ubuntu-Global-Jam.

    • Release Parties and Install Fests

      • LoCo's Release Party at Cairo University.

      • Shrouck Academy Install fest.

      • Alexandria release party for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat.

      • Cairo release party for Maverick Meerkat.

    • Sessions

      • 2010-07-03-SummerTraining.

      • 2010-07-24-CUFE-Linux-Workshop.

      • 2011-07-08-EmbeddedLinuxSessions1.

      • 2011-07-23-EmbeddedLinuxSessions2.

      • 2011-07-30-EmbeddedLinuxSessions3.

      • 2011-08-06-EmbeddedLinuxSessions4.

      • 2011-08-20-EmbeddedLinuxSessions5.

      • 2011-09-10-Embedded-Linux-session-6.

      • 2011-08-21-GIMP-and-graphics-design.

    • Workshops

      • 2011-08-08-QtDevelopment1.

      • 2011-08-17-QtDevelopment2.

      • 2011-08-24-Qt-development3.

      • 2011-09-07-QtDevelopment4.

      • 2011-08-17-PythonDevelopmentWorkshop.

      • 2011-08-23-PythonDevelopmentWorkshop-Session2.

      • 2011-09-13-Python-Workshop-Session3.

      • 2011-09-17-PythonDevelopmentWorkshop-Session4.

    • Ubuntu Hour Meetings

      • 2010-10-28-Ubuntu-Hour-Alexandria.

      • 2010-11-04-Ubuntu-Hour-Alexandria.

      • 2011-03-04-Ubuntu-Hour-Cairo.

      • 2011-03-18-Ubuntu-Hour-Cairo.

      • 2011-07-29-Ubuntu-Hour-Cairo.

  • Sponsored

    • SimplyUbuntu book. An Arabic book for the normal unexperienced user.

Note: you can find photos of these events on our Facebook page albums and our Flicker Pool.

• Created the team website.

• Getting involved with local LUG and technical groups.

  • Ahmed Toulan gave a session about desktop programming using Qt in an EGLUG event.

  • Anas Emad gave a session about InkScape in an EGLUG event.

  • Mohamed Zaian gave a session about "How to setup a webserver in 10 mins on Linux" in an EGLUG event.

  • Mohamed Saudi gave a session about "How to install Ubuntu" in an EGLUG event.

  • Mohamed Gamal gave a session about "Git version control system" in Mansoura CAT community. Watch video.

  • Islam Wazery gave a workshop on Gimp for IShare community.

  • Abdallah Hodaib gave a workshop on Python for IShare community.

Photos

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