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fedora in Menoufiya university

by diaa | Mon, 12/15/2008 - 21:20

I am going tomorrow to El- Menoufiya to represent Fedora 10 as fedora release party.

We will be moving (Omar, Mostafa and I) from Cairo at 8:10 to reach there before 10:30 AM. The trip is about 90 Km from Cairo.

Since I know personally all ambassadors in Egypt; it will be cool to meet Hamada tomorrow and watch the fedora community growing in Egypt.

We'll present Fedora introduction and desktop features demonstration. there will be Live usb creation station.

Working on ISP

As my employer is the largest ISP on Egypt, the bandwidth will let me help in spreading fedora.

| file: Fedora-9-i386-DVD
| size: 3,580,680,964 (3 GiB)
| dest: /home/diaa/Fedora-9-i386-DVD
| progress: #################_________________________________________
| status: finishing in 5:03:45 (15.7%)
| dl speed: 103.4 KB/s
| ul speed: 319.6 KB/s
| sharing: 1.859 (999.8 MB up / 537.8 MB down)
| seeds: 2 seen now, plus 1 distributed copies(2:99.0%, 3:94.1%, 4:85.0%)
| peers: 19 seen now

Fedora Day at Helwan University

The Linux week event took place on 20th-24th April in Helwan university - Computer science faculty. It was organized by Student United.

There was special arrangement for fedora; a dedicated day for fedora sessions. it was planned that I gave two sessions with 3 presentations.

The faculty dean was expecting us at his office, we met him and presented briefly the plans for fedora day, I handed him the lovely fedora LiveCD.

Then we checked the booth, answered some questions then moved to session's place.

First session had two presentations, the target audience was first and second grade, the two presentation are

1) Free/Open source introduction 45 minute.
2) Fedora introduction presentation 1 hour.

There was quite regular questions, like who pays, and what is the benefit that return to fedora, the most interesting question was "I' am CS student what makes me run fedora and not other distribution?"; I will write the answer on other blog post.

Second session was explore the power of command line, target audience were students of 4th grade. They were amazed how easy to get extract date from files and automate routine jobs.