We have launched CAT Scope 3 and it was pretty successful, we had many presentations and I can’t remember all the presentations’ titles but I can remember a few.

  1. About CAT Reloaded.
  2. Ahmed Soliman: The Open Source Approach – It was a sponsored presentation by Origin IBM.
  3. Hesham ElSawi: IT Training, it was a very nice presentation about IT training in generally – It was a sponsored presentation by Origin IBM.
  4. Abdel Rahman Za’za: USB Technology.
  5. Hatem Mohammed: FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Technology.
  6. Hassanien Mohammed: What does graphics mean?

My presentation “The Opensource approach” had the award of the best and the most popular presentation (it’s not award but it’s a nomination after surveying the attendees). And things went perfect and we started to organize things to become more smooth and smooth.

The problem was that all the guys were beginners and they knew nothing about meetings and discussions and Allah knows, it was a mess!. I could manage to cope and manage to run the meetings as good as it’s possible while many people couldn’t cope and “Ahmed Abdalla” (as I remember) spent all his efforts trying to educate people how to talk in a meeting or how to brainstorm (while I believe that he himself didn’t know a solution, but he couldn’t cope with the situation because he barely can speak – that’s why he was trying to educate). He later discovered that my advices about leaving people and trying to guide their conversations into useful ones is more efficient than leaving the whole topic and talking about how to talk in a meeting.

Anyhow, those days were nice and binGo and psycho specially were growing up fast as they are really talented but they needed some guidance, I think they had a good opportunity really and they used it very well.

Ahmed Abdalla was then elected as the CAT coordinator and I didn’t apply for being coordinator because I was too busy at Origin with the IBM scholarship I was teaching and I had a very important project to manage along with my educational studies.

Let me say this, abdalla was a great guy but he was very lousy and he was losing control and things went sleepy, so CAT had a sleeping period they we have suggested opening chances for CAT-driven courses to be launched in the faculty for free for a selected number of qualified students. I was about to start a Linux course and we had many interviews with students applying for that opportunity and we were criticized hardly because people thought that it’s not fair to choose the qualified only. However we thought that it was the best idea at then because we didn’t want people to rush into the courses and being unqualified will definitely ruin the course quality.

However, we canceled the idea and the only one who have started a course was me and it was never completed…

Let me resume tomorrow…I’m at work now :)