Free/Open Source Software News

Arab Techies proudly announce the release of the first outcomes of a four days Arabization Codesprint, which was held in Cairo, 20 - 23 May 2009.

About the event

EGLUG was contacted by Nile Center for Technology Research (NCTR) to be a speaker in this conference. NCTR is a governmental institute in Sudan.

The event is governemtnat, with more than one minister attending along with other decision makers (the list of participants is available).

EGLUG was invited to be a speaker a seminar in Khartoum, Sudan titled: Free and Open Source Software in Sudan: Freedom of Change and Strategic Vision

This seminar is made by Nile Center for Technology Research (NCTR) and National Information Center (NIC)

I got this in my email, and wanted to share it with you. I think someone from EGLUG should participate in that workshop and let's know how it went, and let the organizers and participants know of our existence.

FREEDOM OF CREATION:

A workshop on GNU/Linux free software and video-making
3-6 April 2008

In the world of artistic creation, free software means tools that are accessible to everyone, for the freedom of expression. This workshop will focus on GNU/Linux applications available for recording, editing and publishing of audio/video materials. Participants will be introduced to the vast choice of possibilities free and open source software can offer. As the workshop progresses, each participant will be encouraged to use and adapt applications that best suits his or her own ideas and needs. This workshop, makes use of a beginner's approach to the topic at hand, explains various techniques of multimedia production using only free and open source software

مسابقة الشيخ على الجابر العلى الصباح العربية للبرامج مفتوحة المصدر

المسابقه تنقسم الى قسم للمطورين و قسم للمستخدمين

مدة المسابقه من 15-1-2007 الى 15-5-2007

وادى عنوان الموقع بتاع المسابقه: http://www.alialsabahcontest.org/

Kabissa, a nonprofit working to make technology a force for change in Africa, is seeking experienced African programmers to assist in a new project to customize the open source Constituent Relationship Management system, CiviCRM.

Over the past six years, Kabissa has worked with hundreds of African

The release 20060329 of the OpenOffice and aspell Arabic dictionaries aka "Happy birthday sweet pie!".

The dictionary contains about 71000 words.

Installation instructions:

aspell: ./configure && make && make install

OpenOffice: You can install it from within openoffice itself however, I wasn't able to find out how.

Debian packages soon!

الاصدار 20060329 من القاموس العربى ل aspell و openoffice و يحتوى على حوالى 71000 كلمه

بدا المشروع منذ ايام قليلة.

يهدف مشروع بغداد الى انشاء مدقق املائى عربى حر و مفتوح المصدر

صدر الاصدار 0.0.1 و هو يستطيع الى حد ما ايجاد الاخطاء فى الكتابة

ال CVS الان يحتوى على كود بدائى للتصحيح و ان كان يحتاج الكثير من الجهد

Africa Source II - Free and Open Source Software for Local Communities will be an eight day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with NGOs on the continent. It will take place in one of the most beautiful parts of the Kalangala Island on Victoria Lake during the beginning of January 2006.

tactical technology collective is accepting the applications.

according to osnews.com " founder and chief architect of the popular Linux distribution Gentoo Daniel Robbins, has taken up a job at Microsoft" woooooow way to go gentoo