[advocacy-discuss] New OSUG in Cairo Egypt

[Jim Walker]

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Cheers,
Jim

Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to start an opensolaris user group for Cairo/Egypt. I see 
> Egypt does not have one, and even the rest of the Arabic speaking world 
> does not yet! I have been a Linux user for a decade and have contributed 
> a few things along with technical support. My fedora personal page is: 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AhmedKamal. Recently though I have been 
> drawn to osol due to zfs and dtrace. My current employer 
> (www.aserver.com <http://www.aserver.com>) also uses a lot of osol to 
> build our virtualization stack.
> 
> OSUG Details
> -Name: Egypt OSUG (egosug)
> -Initial Members: It will start with me (kim0) and my co-worker Ahmed 
> Abdallah (abd4lla). However, I am positive I can easily get around 10 
> friends signed once I tell them about the OSUG
> -The activities will be online discussions, a few meetings per year. 
> Giving out CDs and helping new osol users in the region with technical 
> issues, especially if they need local language support
> 
> Can someone please let me know what's the next step should my request be 
> approved. Is it possible to ship some CDs perhaps to start giving away.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
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