Ahmed Mekkawy, Spirula Systems’ CEO, made a TV appearance on ONTV in the program “Telt El Talata”. In the 40-minutes episode, Mekkawy discussed many aspects of data privacy and surveillance, including government’s censorship, Internet filtering, data protection and censorship bypassing tools. You can watch the...
The Arab League Education, Culture and Science Organization (ALECSO), in cooperation with the Saudi National Program for Free and Open Source Technologies (MOTAH), held their second meeting for FOSS Arab Experts Network during the period from 15 to 17 January 2013. Ahmed Mekkawy, CEO, represented the...
FOSS Enterpreneurship from Ahmed Mekkawy...
Spirula Systems announces a job vacancy for Technical Sales Representative. Requirements: - Good background of IT operations. - Computer Science college degree or something relevant. - Well understanding of FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) concepts. - Fluent with using Linux as a desktop. - Highly preferable Alexandria resident. - Have no issues in...
As Spirula Systems is always willing for outreach for potential customers who can benefit from its -almost- unique services, a new outreach to Africa, our beloved continent, has been made. Coded in Country (CiC) is a software implementation approach where the technical needs of a project...
As Spirula Systems had a role in supporting some political opposition websites before the Egyptian revolution, we didn't hesitate to support the new Egyptian government when it was needed. Spirula Systems helped by securing and managing the server of the latest Egyptian referendum website. This was...
Since Spirula Systems started, it wasn't very clear to others what we have been doing. Now we can disclose a part of our activities that kept behind closed doors for a long period. We always believed that everybody has the full right to speak his mind,...
It's our pleasure to announce our partnership with ArabCrunch, the well-known arabic technical blog. What ArabCrunch provides is a service, and as any other service that reaches its customers, it is important to all the involved parties that the service is always available to those who...
For 4 days, ArabCrunch was under attack. The attack was a normal HTTP DDoS attack but the amount was high so their VPS couldn't handle and the hosting company got their VPS down. Till they contacted us. We migrated their services on a hardware server, and...
As we embrace free software principles, and from our commitment to support FOSS communities, Spirula Systems was one of the three sponsors for EGLUG's installfest that took place Saturday, third of April 2010. That was the sixth installfest happens in Cairo since EGLUG was formed. This...
