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News - 15/Feb/06
  • Admins are extremely busy right now so expect delays in our responce time for emails! Thanks for your understanding.
    • News - 13/Dec/05
  • We recently got contacted by the science and technology chairperson of the "Egyptian American United Social and Legal Funds (for?) NGO's", who is also a senior webdesigner of the "Public Relations Society of America" website (www.prsa.org). (NGO = non-gov org.)
  • The message concerned a current project of theirs involving gathering Arab IT proffessionals under the theme of "Arabic e-business website development" and "internet security".
  • They formed 7 months ago and have 22 members so far
  • Any egypt2600 watchers in the states interested in joining?
    • News - 09/Dec/05
  • New VOTING PAGE added! Please vote, we apreciate the feedback!
  • A meeting location for Cairo2600 has been suggested.
    • News - 02/Dec/05
  • It's 2600 day today! But that soon might change... Read on ...
  • We were live on air with Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600, on his weekly radio show "Off the Hook"!
  • We asked for special permissions involving bending the official rules of 2600, as we are the first (and only so far) official meeting in the entire Middle-East.
  • If everyone can by majority agree, we can have Middle East 2600 meetings on every first THURSDAY of the the month instead! Please check out the link provided below for more detail on all of this!
  • LINK to article on Egypt2600 on OTH. Please also take the time to vote, to give us your opinion!
    • News - 11/Oct/05
  • A Forum is being worked on very slowly
  • We have been given permission to host light downloads if we so choose. A Files Section is being worked on.
  • Some emails backlogged emails from the past that we intended to reply to accidentally got deleted unfortunatly. Since we have had this problem, regarding email, every time we have moved server, we are NOT using @egypt2600.net email addresses. Please use the email provided at the top of the page to contact us.
  • Two more articles that have been added to the Documents page! This is also the first arabic article we have posted on this site, submitted by Cryptonomicon, our cairo admin.
    • News - 18/Jun/05
  • Meetup.com have finally given up hosting their UNOFFICIAL cairo2600 meetings (that we did not support). Please do not join them, and get ready for our own cairo2600. Click here to see the unofficial one shut down

    • Check our News Archive for older news, since the opening of Egypt2600.

    Egypt2600 Projects

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    Topic Description Updated Status
    New 2600 day for the Middle-East For more info visit this page [ LINK ] 02/Dec/05 Active
    Translation of 2600 magazine Now that we have arabic translation for the website we are looking for support from 2600 in the form of an electronic form of their magazine to be able to translate it with our translation engine. Alternatively help is welcomed in translating the magazine manually. 06/May/04 Active
    Spreading the word Really interested in getting Cairo2600 started. Please help us in finding a suitable initial meeting place, preferably near the centre of Cairo.

    We encourage you to setup a meeting near you. Meeting Guidelines.

    		 08/Jul/03 Active
    Media Exposure If you have connections and know technological journalists/writers in Egypt who probably would find this interesting, we'd like to hear from you. Maybe we could make an interesting read 05/Mar/03 Active
    T-shirts The idea of an Egypt2600 T-shirt has been put forward. If enough interest is expressed, it will go ahead. We need designs. Send them in! 08/Jul/03 Active
    Alexandria Library Project The idea was put forward to try get a government grant towards translating the US 2600 magazine into Arabic as part of the 'Alexandria Library Project'. The Alexandria Library Project is not a project of 2600. 02/May/03 Inactive
    Government Approval We are currently trying several methods of getting government approval. We may need to register as an NGO. 02/May/03 Inactive

    Translation of 2600 website

    		 We are currently in the process of creating an Arabic mirror of the site. A translator has been found. Help is always welcomed.

    We now have access to a translation engine, meaning if you click the little Egyptian flag, the whole site translates into Arabic automatically.

    		 06/May/04 Completed
    Arabic for "Hacker" Currently the term 'hacker' translates as 'El Qursan' meaning 'Pirate'. This is a complete misrepresentation of the hacker community and is a total demonisation! We will try to coin a new, more appropriate term.

    In recent articles on hackers in news papers, they all spelt the word 'hacker' phonetically in Arabic.
    Click here to see one. Click here for a translation.    		 25/May/03 Completed

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