My Story with CAT 1
It’s a very long story to tell, if you have time only start reading now because it might take a few minutes reading the whole story.
CAT is Computer Assistance Team, a network of talented students in the college of computers and systems engineering - Mansoura University started to form a family under the name “CAT” to provide intensive information and to open up students’ eyes to the computers world earlier on 1996. At ths time computer knowledge merely existed and a few people who could really say that they have ever used a computer. The team contained many people whom I don’t know all of them but I hear names and I met a few of them. People like “Hesham ElSawi”, “Ashraf ElRefaey”, “Mohammed Ezzat” and etc.
That family achieved alot and they launched 2 conferences under the name “CAT Scope” and that was from 1996 to 1999, then things died and no one had more power to revive that dream.
After a few years, some students in the same college had the same dream once and they started to communicate with Eng.Mahy (Research Engineer in Communications Department). She was contacted by “Abdel Rahman Zaa’za” who was very ambitious and excited to create a team excellent in IT (Information Technology) and they started to contact Hesham ElSawi again and they’ve held many meetings to organize how things are going to work.
At this time I was working as a part-time instructor at Origin-IBM (Authorized IBM Training Center) which was managed and partially owned by Hesham ElSawi. And then he told me that he wants me to help them and join the team. Firstly they started with the name “Smart” and that was the suggested name, then hesham proposed “CAT” to be named after the old CAT family as a continuation to the idea, then finally we decided that it’ll be “CAT Reloaded” - I think it was Ahmed Abdalla’s suggestion as he is a fan of “The Matrix” series”-
At this time I was superior to the team, I had such a great computer history and had achieved many success stories while I was near to their age. I was afraid because I had such bad days meeting people who had hated me for being better or smarter rather than trying to compete me. But luckily things went perfect and they guys respected me very much and I started to help arranging everything. The first event for this IT addicted family was to arrange for CAT Scope 3 and try to face the college routine to achieve this goal.
I started to know everybody more “BinGo, Psycho, Biko, Ahmed Abdalla, Hassanien, Ahmed Nassar, Samer and etc.”, some of them I knew earlier like “Hassanien and Ahmed Nassar” but CAT helped me to know them deeper and deeper.
Generally, we have achieved much and CAT started to take much out of my time and I could barely manage the college/education, work and CAT…starting from here the story I’m telling is beginning…
This is the story you didn’t expect to hear, the impact of CAT to me and how did it affect my career life and my choices.
Let me tell you…in the next post 
ayman said,
December 11, 2007 @ 12:03 am
hi ahmed
ana s3ead gedan be el series 2le 2nta ht3melha de 3lshan tklem feha 3la tgrobtak m3a el CAT , 7agat ktear awe ana 3reftha menak 3an el CAT we 27na fe el 3rbyah lma kona ry7ean cairo , 23dna 7wale 2 hours bnklem 3an el CAT we ahmed byklmne 3la el tarea7′ bta3 el CAT
we zay ma ahmed 3ayez ye2ol 2zay el CAT 3′yraet feah , fa ana nfse el nas t3raf bardoh ahmed 2zay 3′yar fe el CAT we ana 2olt 2bl keda 2n mfeash wa7ed fe el CAT ma 2stfadsh men ahmed soliman , we 2olt 2n nas ktear awe nfshom ybo “ahmed soliman like” we ana menhom , fa 2nta begad ya ahmed kont sbeal 3lshan nas ktear awe tt3′yar we tnga7 we be fadl allah sebt bsmah 3la kol wa7ed , zay el 2lam el rosas 2le 7snean kan 2al 3leah
el CAT de men el 7agah 2le s3eat tarea7′ moshreaf le el wa7ed we sn3et loh 7adr gmeal we kman most2bal moshrek isa , ana kont b7dar fe el 2wal le el CAT ka member 3ade , we men el 7agat 2le 2thrt feyah awe howa el video bta3 el interview 2le kont 3amel feah dor el manager , we ma t3rafsh 2d eah ana fakroh koloh , we 3la ma 23taked 2n howa kan men el 7agat 2le 2thret feyah ktear
we mwakef ktear awe we klemat wlahe el 3zeam lesa fakerha be el 7arf le 7ad el wa2te we heya kan leha el fadl ba3d rbna 2nha t3′yar sh7’syte tmaman
thnx ahmed 3la 2le 3mltoh le el CAT we thnx 3la el post el gmeal dah
slam
Mohammed El Basyouni said,
December 11, 2007 @ 12:03 am
Continue Ahmed el series dah will be great bas ana 3andy comment “basit”.
u said in the last 2 posts 7aga gamda gedan, u talked about people hatting you cuz u r better than them and others can learn from u “whom I count myself one of them” but can u ask the question of the second post to whose people. Do they know themselves “or (1)” to have that kind of feeling, I mean do u introduce yourself to those in the way they knew more about u and in the same order ask themselves how better they can ?
(1) Have u knew them more to decide that they feel “HATE” against u ?, asl hate dih kbeera, el mawdo3 dah 3ala fekra kont lesa bafakar feih. Ana masalan mesh showy le nafsy 7′ales cuz dayman a7eb a3raf kol 7aga elly odamy y3rafha we akeed lama ygely forsa a help akeed b join it. bas kaza mara a meet kaza wa7ed talking as if i’m still in 3rd preparatory school we ykon kol el kalam elly by2olo basics bas showy 2awy we howa by2olo or even talking in a different field 7′ales. kaza mara el mawdo3 dah 7asal ma3aya inside el faculty or through my trainings and the most laughy thing is the reaction of those people when they see my cv masalan or helping someone.
bas ana fe3lan mestany continuing this seires
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
December 11, 2007 @ 1:29 am
well, yeah mohamed, I know them very well.
I can’t say that someone “hates” me until I really get to know him and he gets to know me very well, it’s kinda “3′eera” bas fel a7′er bete2leb be “7ekd”
btw, this didn’t happen in the CAT nehaa2y, or I didn’t see a person like that after joining CAT, bas fe sanawy we e3daady el mawdoo3 dah kan kteer, le daraget en feeh wa7ed 2azaany seriously we etsabbeb enny atla3 barra competition mo3ayana ana kont da7′el feeha 3ashan sara2 el username wel password beta3ty we masa7 sho3′ly kollo men 3ala el server 3ashan howa yeksab.
el 7amdolelah howa maksebsh we ana kesebt next year
Hassanien Mohammed said,
December 11, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
Yaaah ya ahmed,begad el tpoic dah fakarny be 7agat keteera 7elwa we gameela 7asalet fe 7ayaty begad :”>
Ana 3ayez a2o2ool eny 3ereft AHMED lamma konna bena7′od cpursat ma3a ba3d aw 3ashan akoon PRESCISE,lamma kont ba7′od cousre MATH ma3ah “Eng ehab”
kanet el 3elaqa beny we beny mogarad friends we ana faker ayam makona benetkalem aw beye7lena ta7t biety about his experience fil sho3′l,walla lamma 7adartelo awel session fe el qa3a el maseya :”>,CD ya CD,yomha baseley keda we howa beyetkalem we bey2oly esmak hassanien sa7??…elly howa beyzabatny men el 2a7′er ;),yomha 3ereft eno deh 7araka keda beya3melha el presenter el shater 3ashan yeb2a more friendly ma3a el audience !!
Ana aslan bada2 fil IT men 2orayeb fe3lan…we momken a2o2ool eno el CAT was the START fe3lan:D
We faker awel yom 3amalna MEETING fe ORIGIN ma3a el nas kolaha we el7amdollelah can fe nas keteer kont a3rafhom men abl el CAT,like EHAB,NASSAR,HATEM EL SUM,HATEM MOHAMMED,etc….
Yemken heya deh elly 7amesetny eny asharek we a3mel 7aga ana begad can nefsy a3melha awy we atamayaz feeha kaman !!
Ana mesh 3ayez atawel 3allekom..bas akeed hab2a metabe3 el series enshallah !!
Thanx In Advance !!
El Sayed Gamal (Psycho) said,
December 11, 2007 @ 11:36 pm
CONTINUE !
I totally remember these days, …
I believe that I’m lucky to meet you, and to be CAT !
THANKS GOD
I will read the second part now ..
ThanQ
bingorabbit said,
December 11, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
Memories, ay w 3adha Allah
, I remember the 2nd or third meeting with Eng.Mahy, at her previous lab at the college, when you appeared talking about something called Linux, which I considered something like MS Office for example 
, your way of thinking, talking and convincing people, something that I really admire and try as much as I can to learn it from you 
At this time, I was an IRC Guru, especially mIRC and a script kiddie, who thinks him self knows everything, and I realized that I know NOTHING!
The name was first suggested by psycho, we7na 23den kan bey2oli, mategy nesameha CAT Reloaded, 2otlo reloaded eh ya 3am matrix enta
, then Ihab Abd El-Ra7man, suggested the same name but on all meeting attendees, and they approved it, he didn’t even hear psycho saying that to me 
Keep it up, ana hatabe3 ma3ak
marwa said,
December 12, 2007 @ 2:01 am
Ana yemken kont 3arfa goz2 mn el7agat de ,
begad ana sa3eda gedan eny et3araft 3alekom we nefsy fe3lan ab2a a7san mn keda , ed3oly .
Ahmed Bakr said,
December 13, 2007 @ 3:59 am
yaaaaaaah.. memories bgd bs a7la memories f 7ayati
i remember everything mn awel mo7dret Dr.Abed ele Eng.Mahy etkalmt feha awel mara 3an CAT wana kont da5el koleya ya gam3a mosh bafakar ela f derasa wbs bsra7a w kan psychoo a2dam sa7eb leya f dof3a 
(7abiby ya psycho) w b3d mo7dra ye2oli yalla yabni neshof mawdo3 CAT da w neshterk wana a2olo la2 yalla nerawa7 w kona sa3a 12:30 lesa yah entzam ba2a 
w da5lna ma3mal Eng. Mahi wana kont malesh f ay 7aga bgd w Eng.Mahi bets2al nas kol wa7d bey3raf eh mosh 3ayz a2oloko el egabat bs ele kan bey2ol office w ele ye2ol windows all w 7agat keda now iam another person THNX guys really THNX… U R MA BEST FRIENDS EVER (F)