My Story With CAT 3
One thing I have to mention separately, meeting “Yara”…
It was on the first meeting for me with the CAT guys, she was there and it’s unusual to find girls interested in that field and real astonishing is to find them active and brilliant. But “yara” was and she grabbed my attention directly because of her well organization and she is extraordinarily smart. I got to know her more by the time and she was the best work companion for me ever, she was effective in every idea or cooperation she does. I even thought that she was the best girl I’ve ever “worked” with or will work with.
If I made my own business, I’ll love to have her working for me because she is really an added-value for any company, may Allah bless her and show her the way to success ever after isA.
So, After having some courses plans to be launched in the college I got a rising demand for Linux courses at “Origin” and that was great because it helped me develop excellent relationships and helped me deliver my “freedom” message through an enormous number of courses. By this time I got busier and busier because I was managing too many things at the same time (as usual).
At that stage I was adopting the marketing plan for the CAT and I’d helped alot organizing work between the brilliant guys and by time I got to know “Abdalla” more and more and our relationship developed and we were having more time together.
Also samer, he was brilliant but hard to convince mate and he admitted it once 
He is always talking before thinking deeply about the others opinions and what I really loved about samer that he can easily say that he had that bad habit and he can easily admit his bad merits amazingly. I loved to see this and I learned alot from that attitude.
At this time we were finishing the year and we couldn’t arrange another scope but we made a very special session called “About Us” and it was amaaaaaazing really (one of the best sessions I’ve attended), because we had many meetings before it to think about the future plans and organizations and I can show you a photo that have “Ahmed Abdalla” while suggesting a plan and organization for the whole team… see the map on the board to know how complicated things were…
And I was the presentation arranger, I suggested that all the presenters come to stage and we demonstrate each component separately and every component manager speaks about his point and we should be standing with order speaking order so that the microphone is moved sequentially. Yara did a great job really in doing the slides and I remember that she talked about how to register in Hackers and she said an incorrect word that made me in an urge to laugh, I don’t remember that word exactly (thanks goes to my short memory). The nice thing is when you see the photo for attendees you’ll find them today’s members and if not managers, even the current CAT coordinator “Ayman Taher” (for this year 2007) is sitting among the audience.
This photo has many words to describe:
It has “Nano” watching and listening and she was always encouraging and supportive along the way. It has my father, it was his first/last session to attend to me and he was extremely happy that he said on public that I was about to lose my educational position because of computers
Well, After this event CAT changed dramatically and some things went right and a few things went very bad, tomorrow I’ll resume…
Just let me just show you this amazing photo for the original team who’ve relaunched CAT
Yaaaaah, many of those people you didn’t even heared about because they didn’t complete the road and left us or reduced their efforts in a very negative way. let me tell you who they are. starting from down to top right to left
First Row (Bottom Row) - Right -> Left:
- Ehab Abdou (Currently in Canada)
- Abdel Rahman Zaa’za (Original founder of CAT Reloaded)
- Hassanien Mohammed.
Second Row (Bottom Row) - Right -> Left:
- Yara Omar. (She had a hot engine inside her brain masha2llah).
- Ibrahim Abdel Fattah (BinGo).
- Ahmed Soliman (Me )
- Bahaa’ ElDien (Our Financial Manager at that time).
- Ahmed Abdalla (CAT Coordinator at that time).
Third Row (Bottom Row) - Right -> Left:
- Ahmed Bakr (Biko).
- Hatim El Sum.
- Samer Gad.
- Mohammed El Zalabany.
Fourth Row (Bottom Row) - Right -> Left:
- Amr Salah (The Printing Guy).
- ElSayed Gamal (Psycho).
- Hatim Mohammed (FPGA, Microcontrollers and etc).
- Ahmed Abo Elhaz
I loved those days realllly…
Let me resume tomorrow…
ayman said,
December 12, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
yeah , it’s was great session really
i was there , i attented this session with dr ahmed hassan , and ur father
ana faker lma ro7t le bbak el maktab m3a dr.ahmed hassan 3lshan nro7 we kan by2ol le dr ahmed hassan yalah bsor3ah 3lshan 27na 2t7′rna
we faker el kelmah 2le howa 2lha lma 27′ad el mic , we 7ta 2al “kan yb2a 3ndoh 2mt7an we 2la2eah 2a3ed 3la el net yeklem wa7ed sene we wa7ed hende ”
about the word that yara said . i think sa3et ma 2alet
الموقع هيبقى جاهز فى ايام مديده ان شاء الله
مش قصدك على دى برده ولا ايه
i remember alot of things from this session , like the CAT ID in this time “Red for managers , Blue for members”
and the word every member is a manager
and the quota system “20 L.E”
in this session yara presents long schedule about activites and courses will run in this year , i think 2n feah 7agat ktear awe menha ma 2t3mletsh
we kman ana mesh 3aref 2nta faker wla la2 ya ahmed bas 2nta shoftne 2bl el session de we 2olt le 2nta ma bt7darsh leah we kont m3ak 3abdallah we sa3etha ana 2olt lak “la2 ya basha 2zay ana mwgoad 3la tol”
thnx alot , waiting for more
Mohammed El Basyouni said,
December 12, 2007 @ 9:10 pm
ana fe3lan shayf el mawdo3 dah now as if it was yesterday, I was in preparatory when CAT starts again, zekrayat mesh hatetnisy abadan.
dah Electronics….
bas 3ala fekra sho3′l el FPGAs and other high speed ICs dah sho3′lena e7na mesh Computer and Control
Continue…….
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
December 12, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
yeah ayman, bas she said “ayaam 3adeeda” not “madeeda”, badal mat2ool “ma3dooda”
and Mohammed, what’s wrong with you ya man?
beta3na walla beta3kom howa 7ad 2allak enny mosh electronics?!
e7na konna electronics la7ad tanya we talta we rab3a bas homma elli computers and control.
anyhow ana mosh 3aref eeh elli 7asesak enny ba2ool enno beta3na! bas eshta ya man
El Sayed Gamal (Psycho) said,
December 13, 2007 @ 12:48 am
fe3lan, Ayaam la tonsaa … Ana faker el TAILORED about us dah .. kan gameel awe
thanQ ..
Keep it up
bingorabbit said,
December 13, 2007 @ 2:54 am
I still remember the day just before the About Us Session, kona fi 612 organizing the role play, when I suddenly showed up, telling psycho about what he may say, when you told me “5alas etla3 enta ya bingo badalo”
, w yaretak ma2olt, makansh zamanak 3edt elli ana mafrod a2olo ba3d mana sebt el mic 
youm el “About Us”..It was the first time for me to hold a mic..or to say a word to some audience.. 
Butterfly said,
December 14, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
ana awel wa7da kont sa2altaha 3ala elcat kanet yara , 7ata fakra eny kont ro7t 3and elposter we 7awelt afham 7aga mafhemtesh tab3an masada2t shoftaha ba3daha we sa2altaha howa da eih kaman makansh 2asdy 3ala elly maktob felposter bs we kaman kan 2asdy heya el nas de meen we bete3mel eih , 3ala asas eny kont mefakara enoko nas aganb wala 7aga ( looooooool).
Mohammed El Basyouni said,
December 15, 2007 @ 6:18 am
talta we rab3a Computer and Control plus elective courses from their and graduation project, ” we were electronics ” is not really right because it was common basics between the 2 departments but if you continued talta we rab3a in electronics and communications like me there is a difference, by the way as the 2 departments are not the same they are also not enemies, or else you could work VHDL coder in Mentor Graphics or SWS, which is clear from their employers and contractors that they hire Electronics Engineers only not even Communications one, “el ta5asos” is well known in our department even that the first graduation project compile each of comm. and electronics was the first in EED 2005 by some of my friends. don’t judge the “ta5asos” from the point of view of our faculty in dividing the departments, my words came out as a resultant experience in such companies and from my sister which is a mentor employee now.
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
December 16, 2007 @ 1:43 am
it’s ok while I didn’t “judge” anything!
anyhow, I’m computer engineer and I didn’t claim to be electronics one ever!
you are taking this too sensitive ya man, weird though!
Abd4llA said,
December 16, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
Wow, very wonderful topics about the CAT Ahmed. Really I love them, it even inspired me to write about my own part in this story
. You were and will always be different and initiative. Let me just say that the knowing you , the CAT and my Marwa are TRULY the ONLY things that made me not regret joining Mansoura University, I swear some times when I think about what would have happened if I joined the AUC for example, then I say “I wouldn’t have met all of you ” .
Basyouni, what’s your problem ?!! you’re being too sensitive. Cool up ya man
Mohammed El Basyouni said,
December 23, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
ana mada5altish ba2aly kteer bas la2et el comments 3ala el post dih 2olt ashof ahmed soliman kan a5er wa7ed 3ala ma azkor.
bye
sensitive ???!!! ezay ana kont batkalem 3ady, by the way el mawdo3 5elis asasan we el mawdo3 mesh 3ala el sensitivity wala el VHDL el mawdo3 3an el CAT, hashof a5er post