[Ambassadors] News from Egypt :)
Caterpillar
caterpillar86 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 09:42:46 UTC 2012
Il 31/12/2012 10:38, Ahmed Araby ha scritto:
> Hello ambassadors,
> Good morning from Egypt :)
> Two days ago the government here in Egypt anunced a deal with
> Microsoft , with 43M$
> All opensource communities and activists in Egypt started to move and
> act to stop that deal or at least limit It's effect
> We organized a stand (1) In front of the prime minister's office (2)(3)
> Ahmed Mekkawy(4)(5) (OpenEgypt(6) member and Opensource Activist)
> arranged a meeting with the minister of communications in Egypt who's
> in charge of almost anything related to IT field in the government
> Nadeen(7) and I attended the meeting as Fedora Community Ambassadors
> There has been other communities in the meeting (Ubuntu(8), Adf(9) and
> others )
> We've talked about many things but the results was not as expected,
> they are still continuing with the deal as it
> But they promised there'll be a commitment to open source in the
> upcoming projects, also they said there will be other meetings
> People in the street started to ask "What's opensource? why ?" ,
> That's a great achievement for us
> As I said this is not our last move
>
>
> 1) https://www.facebook.com/events/368019856627453/
> 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cARRc5XVUnM
> 3) http://www.aswatmasriya.com/multimedia/micro
> 4) https://www.linkedin.com/in/linuxawy
> 5) https://twitter.com/linuxawy
> 6) http://www.openegypt.net/node/5926
> 7) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nspirit
> 8) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam
> 9) http://arabdigitalexpression.org/
>
> --
> Ahmed M. Araby
> (FAS : egydev)
>
>
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I am very happy to read this, be proud of what are you doing!
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