Since January 2011, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) advocates have been urging the Egyptian government to shift from proprietary software towards FOSS, and the argument was mostly financial, based on saving the costs of acquiring licenses. Nevertheless, the argument later included the capabilities that...
As we are always keen to provide our valued clients with top notch technologies, Spirula Systems started offering DevOps automation with ansible. By using ansible, we are able to provide configurations management, masscontrolling clusters, automated provisioning for replicable environments, among other use cases. Combined with...
For the second year in a row, Spirula Systems took part in the annual academic conference “ICT in Our Lives” in Alexandria University, as part of our commitment to contribute to academia and link it to the industry. The conference is organized by the Information...
Ahmed Mekkawy, CEO, was a keynote speaker in the Mozilla Egypt conference “Mozilla Power ‘13” hosted by The British University in Egypt during 20-21 December 2013. According to the organizers, Mozilla Power is “...
Why Cloud Computing has to go the FOSS way from Ahmed Mekkawy...
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...
