The First-Ever Installfest in Egypt

MadFarmAnimalz writes "On the first of May, the Egyptian LUG had the first ever Linux Installfest (check out the photos and for Pete's sake mirror them!) at the Sawy Cultural Center in downtown Cairo. Turnout was absolutely incredible; the hall was maxed out at something between 500 and 1,000 persons for 7 solid hours (not bad considering our geurrilla marketing campaign can't have cost more than 7 or 8 dollars), and we were absolutely swamped!" Read on below for more details.

"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)"

Comments

And now the real holy war starts

[Anonymous Coward]

vi vs emacs

Huh?

[Phidoux]

A Linux install-fest and they advertised gorillas?

Clothing

[ttys00]

These people don't look like Linux geeks to me. They are clean and well dressed! :)

Re:Speaking of Freedom...

[mecanicaz]

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.

Re:Since they asked for it

[Guppy06]

"Theres a mirror"

Aziz, light!

aN00bis?

[jerky42]

Would this be the Egyptian god that new users pray to?