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The First-Ever Installfest in Egypt
"The atmosphere was just unbelievable; people who had had linux installed realised the LUGgers were overwhelmed and stayed on helping other people with installs, we couldn't burn CDs fast enough, several thousand educational pamphlets were not enough by a wide margin. We were expecting maybe 150 or 200 people throughout the day, but we had already reached that number by 9:45 a.m. (15 minutes before opening!). To the best of our knowledge, the most successful LUG-driven event in the middle-east, certainly the biggest, and one hell of a day that we'll all remember. Note that we are now looking at the possibility of another Installfest during summer at the Bibliotecha Alexandrina and would welcome any extra resources. (A big thanks to MadFarmAnimalz' family who served the volunteers sandwiches carefully wrapped in copies of the GPL preamble and the deCSS code)"
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A Linux install-fest and they advertised gorillas?
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Thanks detritus. The images are on Alaa's home machine which is a dinky ADSL machine. I just called his wife and asked if she had a fire extinguisher. :)
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
How long before Bill Gates asks Rumsfeld to bomb-out the whole area???
Perhaps I wasn't the only one that read the headline and thought this was just an update to the Installing Linux on dead badgers article. Next week on Slashdot how to optimize your Linux Mummy Cluster.
Believe it or not, from idea to execution was 20 days, mostly carried out with a nucleus of 5 people we call /dev/cabal.
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I'm doing an exhaustive write-up, and there's more pictures. We rushed this post because we wanted to thank the people at El Sawy Cultural Center with a slashdotting
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
..just a bunch of hieroglyphics?
This installfest proves that it isn't!
7 hours to install Linux? Think I'll stick to Windows... :)
... who is Pete ?
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These people don't look like Linux geeks to me. They are clean and well dressed! :)
Actually Egyptians (out of their culture) are far more open to accept and learn about other cultures. That's how it's logic to see such quotes on english comments. Yet their own culture is rich with icons of liberty that other 'closed' cultures couldn't even go looking for them. Your question itself shows that while Egyptians were learning about Ben Franklin I guess you were sitting there trying to learn only about your icons. I guess Egyptian culture is an open source culture.
Computers are great and all for what we use them for, but for them to be able to bring people together in a _social_ setting is pretty damn cool. Sorta throws itself in the face of the usual antisocial computer geek stereotype.
The above typed from a lonely basement somewhere...
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Aziz, light!
Turnout was absolutely incredible; the hall was maxed out at something between 500 and 1,000 persons for 7 solid hours
seems that not only the web site, but the event itselft was slashdotted.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Would this be the Egyptian god that new users pray to?
The strong do what they can, while the weak suffer what they must.
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*Ducks*