SFD: My First Steps

This is the second post in my series about Software Freedom Day@Alexandria University To say the truth, I was supposed to post this one about a week ago but I have been dead busy. So, I will try to make it up in this post. I consider working at SFD one of the most event I had ever enjoyed while working in till this moment. I participated in previous events, but SFD has its own taste. I enjoy my activities at SFD as I am working with an amazing people. They are so ambitious, creative, organized and hard workers. Each one knows his duties and does it in silence. Every one shared his opinion and expressed his thoughts. SFD Team is the best. In the past period, we were organizing the whole event. I engaged in several long discussions and two meetings till now. As I enjoy playing with images, having the chance to design the T-shirts was sooo fun for me. Of course, we had a voting among the team to see which design the team likes the most. But I believe I had the final word :D The biggest steps we had done in the past period was having our registration page and finishing the program (which I will talk about in details in a separate post isA). Don't forget to register for our event here Our program is available here I think this is all for now. See you in my next post.

InkScape

In the past few days, I discovered a new program to design and edit images. It is called "Inkscape".

As part of my activity at "Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University", we needed to customize some logos of the event. The official site of SFD suggested Inkscape as it is an open source program, so I decided to have a look at it.

I was surpissed how easy it is to edit something or event create something from scratch. I didn't try a lot of programs before. But as I remember, I had a difficult experience with photoshop for example.

Another feature in Inkscape, which I personally think it is its main power point, is that each line in the image is a vector that you can easily change. You also can change the size of the image without worring about its resolution.

There are versions for different platforms starting from Windows to Linux and MAC. You can check their website: http://www.inkscape.org/download/

I hope you like it as much as I did.

Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University

As this is the most recent activity in my Technical life, I decided to start with talking about it. "Software Freedom Day 2009" or SFD09, I heard about this event about two weeks ago. I had no clue about what it is, who do it or anything about it. As it became one of my duties, as ACM Chapter Officer and OSUM Club Organizer, to hold this day on our campus, I start searching for a while about it. And here is what I discovered: Software Freedom Day is an international day to celebrate free software and open source community. It is been celebrated by organizing sessions, contests and even parties!! Its main target is to encourage more people to use free software and be happy while doing it. As the team I am working with on organizing this event always seeks for the best, and we are always looking to be different, SFD09 is no longer one day on our campus!! It is two weeks full of sessions, demos, contest and the most important: knowledge and entertainment. For more information about SFD09 @ Alexandria University, check the following links: Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University-Wiki Page Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University- OSUM Club If you are near Alexandria from 1st Sept to 15th Sept, don’t forget to RSVP our event on Facebook: Facebook Event I will regularly post the newest news about our SFD on our campus. So, keep checking my blog. Hope to see all there.