Allow me to repeat myself here, Life is never ending installation festivals & conferences at least when it’s about your freedom Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team will be at the Open Source Day Organized by Jordan University of Science and Technology.
This event we will be packed with our new member Advocate Omar Eltaweel who will be giving a 60 minutes presentation about Legalizing your IT infrastructure and Of course Mr Khamis Seksek who will be speaking about Linux as an investment.
No speaker slot for the poor me this time but I will be handling the Installation festival, hopefully we will be able to distribute more than 200 CD although the estimate number of visitors goes beyond 5,000, we are still hunting for a sponsor if you think you can sponsor us please leave a comment as we are in big need for more CDs
Tags: Ubuntu, Jordan, LoCo Team, Jordan University, Science and Technology, Installation festival, speakers, conference, legalizing IT infrastructure, advocate, investment
Posted on Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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Amman, April 9th-10th 2008 -Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team.
As part of Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team continuous efforts to spread awareness about GNU/Linux in the Kingdom, the team organized a public event at Pricess Sumaya University for Technology in Cooperation with The King Hussein School for Information Technology. Mr. Jad Madi & Khamis SekSik gave a two hours lecture Introducing FLOSS in the Jordanian way, as well as a brief background of FLOSS history.
In addition, the lecture included Mr.Seksik explaining some reasons to use FLOSS Jordan, as well as comparing selling service VS selling software, and comparing backward compatibility issues between FLOSS and other software.
Other issues discussed by like the ethical reasons to use FLOSS. The argument is that using proprietary software without paying for it equal theft and as such is unethical. In many ways, we highlighted title=”Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team- March 2008 event”>again, choosing the right software is a very important decision because it affects time, effort, and money invested in this software.
Tags: continuous efforts, gnu linux, king hussein, amman, ubuntu loco, information technology , cooperation, jordan, linux
Posted on Friday, April 11th, 2008
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Years ago I created Ubuntu Group on flickr and actually totally forgot about it just because I was away from Flickr and today I found some interesting photos in the photo pool
Ubuntu Cola?
Interesting Screenshot
A good reason to quit flickr
Ubuntu Motherhood
Linux Terrorist ? Bin Tux? LoL or maybe Pen/guin
Ubuntu mobile
you can view more by visiting Ubuntu Group on Flickr or maybe you would want to load random photos as a badge on your blog
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Tags: ubuntu, flickr, photo, pool, group
Posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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Amman, March 13th 2008 -Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team.
As part of Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team continuous efforts to spread awareness about GNU/Linux in the Kingdom, the team organized a public event at The University of Jordan in Cooperation with IEEE Student Branch. Mr. Khamis SekSik gave a lecture Introducing FLOSS in the Jordanian way, as well as a brief background of FLOSS history.
In addition, the lecture included Mr.Seksik explaining some reasons to use FLOSS Jordan, as well as comparing selling service VS selling software, and comparing backward compatibility issues between FLOSS and other software.
Other issues discussed by Mr.Sisek were the ethical reasons to use FLOSS. The argument is that using proprietary software without paying for it equal theft and as such is unethical. In many ways, Mr.Siksek highlighted, choosing the right software is a very important decision because it affects time, effort, and money invested in this software.
Following the lecture, a number of Ubuntu Jordan LoCo helped in setting up the FIRST Ubuntu Lab in The University of Jordan.
It is worth mentioning that next week Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team is scheduled to start giving Ubuntu Desktop Courses in cooperation with Jordan University IEEE Student Branch.
Tags: desktop courses, jordan university, university of jordan, continuous efforts, compatibility issues, backward compatibility, gnu linux, khamis, right software, selling software, floss, time effort, proprietary software, ubuntu, amman, loco, siksek, cooperation, linux, money
Posted on Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Under: Community, GNU, Linux, Software, ubuntu | 13 Comments »
Yesterday we had a very energetic LoCo meeting and we decided to have a fixed monthly schedule
- Monthly FLOSS introductory lecture
- Monthly Ubuntu Desktop Course
- Monthly Ubuntu Installation Festival
This month we will do it at Jordan University and I’m so excited about it but that’s just the kick start of what we are planning to do.
I’ll keep this blog updated about LoCo Team activities and plans in the Kingdom, so stay tuned!
Tags: Course, Desktop, floss, introductory lecture, jordan university, kick start, loco, ubuntu, jordan university, introductory lecture, kick start, floss, loco, blog
Posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Under: Community, GNU, Linux, Open, ubuntu | 2 Comments »
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