Software Freedom Day: Epilogue

A week ago, the Software Freedom Day event in Alexandria University has ended. I had fun and pleasure to participate with the event's organization team. It was really a nice team to work with.
It was also so rewarding seeing the joy and passion in the eyes of the attendees, showing them that Open Source is really a great and reliable solution for their daily life computer usage.

Finally, this will be the last post in my series about the event. Here's a list of the previous ones.

1. Prologue
2. Why should you be interested in Free Open Source Software ??? (Part I)
3. Why should you be interested in Free Open Source Software ??? (Part II)
4. Hello Python
5. Obstacles in the way ...
6. Let The Party Begin ...
7. Middle Of The Journey
8. My Python Session
9. It's Cloudy

Until the next time, i say again , it's time to Take Control Of Your Digital Life. :)

Get A Grip (my new demo track)

Today is one of the great days when i feel very productive and satisfied, coz today i composed a new track and finished it from scratch in about 4.5 hours.
I don't know how i did that :D , all my previous trials and samples were totally screwed.

When you hear it you'll feel the instruments are not quite natural. Yeah they are digital samples created in Fruity Loops 8. I didn't play by myself :D.
Anyway, here's the track, it's called "Get A Grip", and it's still a Demo till i manage to enhance it or play it live.

Get A Grip (Demo) by ŁØЯÐ M

Have Fun and tell me your opinion :)

SFD: It's Cloudy

This post is one of the series intended for the Software Freedom Day event in Alexandria University,Egypt ,organized by Software Freedom Day@Alexandria University team.

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During the past two weeks of the events, i've set a small system for me to follow my organizational tasks.
The special thing about it, it was all on the cloud :D.

Maybe it's the best feature i like about Google. That approach of porting the applications to the web.

For mails, i used GMail. And GMail Tasks list to store the task to do just right after i get them by mail.
Google Calendar is good for storing the meetings dates and other stuff.
I used Google Reader to follow my team members' blogs (as we were assigned to post regularly about the event and the open source culture).
And the most important one, Google Docs.
I used Docs to create a form for the study group of Python i have been mentoring.
Also, the organizers team shared the event's program on Docs.

What to say, it's been superb to organize myself around Google web apps. They aided me for more productivity and time saving.

As i always say at the end, "God bless Google" :D

SFD: My Python Session

This post is one of the series intended for the Software Freedom Day event in Alexandria University,Egypt ,organized by Software Freedom Day@Alexandria University team.

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Today i were presenting my session in Software Freedom Day event.
The session was titled "Programming Under Linux In Python".

For about one hour, with attendance of about 30 persons, i introduced the Python language first , its features and problems, explained the syntax of python language and showed some demos of useful python scripts specially for Linux.

If you attended the session, let me know your feedback :)

Programming Under Linux In Python

View more presentations from Marwan Osman.

SFD: Middle Of The Journey

This post is one of the series intended for the Software Freedom Day event in Alexandria University,Egypt ,organized by Software Freedom Day@Alexandria University team.

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It's been a week since the software freedom day started.
I'm so grateful i joined the organization of this event. There have been great sessions presented by experienced speakers in the open source community.

I was a bit surprised by the numbers of attendees. I didn't expect that much number of people interested in free open source software.

As i mentioned we had great sessions in the event. Unfortunately,i couldn't attend all the sessions due to my organization tasks. The Good thing i had the chance to attend four important sessions in the event program.

The first two sessions were presented by Eng.\ Amr Ali from EGLug. He's an expert in security for Linux systems. He focused in his sessions on security awareness and some tips and guides in practicing more security in our daily life.

The other two sessions were presented by Eng.\ Mohamed Sayed (previous senior administrator at Yahoo!) . The first one was about open source solutions for infrastructures, and how to choose and set the suitable open source solutions for companies and organizations. The second one was about secure virtual tunnels connections. I didn't really get this one , but it got the main idea :D.

The event is still on for another week with more great sessions.
More posts about the event coming in the way,so stay tuned ...
Now with some pics (and some more to be posted soon)

SFD team with eng.\ Mohamed Sayed

SFD: Let The Party Begin ...

This post is one of the series intended for the Software Freedom Day event in Alexandria University,Egypt ,organized by Software Freedom Day@Alexandria University team.

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Yesterday, September the 1st , was the first day in Software Freedom Day@Alexandria University.
The day started early for me in order to participate in organization tasks.
After some time, the Keynote session presented by eng.\ Hamdy Khalil from eSpace started.Unfortunately i missed it :(.

However, i was rewarded by seeing the large number of people who were registering and standing in front of our desks. I don't know exactly how many but i estimate they reached 200. It was really an amazing feeling to see all of these people who came for something you've been working on and organizing for considerably a long time.

Afterwards, it was the 2nd session presented by eng.\ Ahmed Mekkawy (known as linuxawy from EGLUG and linux admin at eSpace ) . He talked about the philosophy of Open Source Software and the 4 Software Freedoms.

We're just starting the party. Study groups will begin in the next few days, more amazing sessions are coming and lots more ...

Come on and register now (if you still didn't) ,join us on the event page on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124455764728, check our program and keep track of the interesting sessions you find, and join us in our study groups:

1. Basics of Linux Terminal
2. Python
3. Virtual Box
4. C++
5. Ruby
6. Wikipedia
7. Java
8. LXDE

Final words to say , it's time to Take Control Of Your Digital Life (That's the event's theme by the way :D)