Hello!
As an open source believer and PHP active member, I feel the responsibility of passing and receiving knowledge from different individuals in this community. The major approach would be providing free of charge training courses which cover several open source technologies. Topics will cover design patterns, programming languages, databases, javascript frameworks, Mac OS X terminal and advanced big data manipulation and scaling up application. In the early stages, I would take the full responsibility to provide the trainings until we reach to a level of inviting international speakers and experts.
For each different course, there will be "suggested" pre-requistes, which hopefully I will try to cover as well. Trainings will be open to anyone who is interested and my objective is to teach, motivate and maximize any individual's technical interest and skill set. Individuals who do not have any technical background are most welcomed as I am more than happy to coach such people to become capable of producing great software.
Why should you join?
If you think think that you need to get an idea on open source technologies, dig deeper into specific topics, learn from other more experienced or even teach the community, then I dont think you need any other reason to join.
I am hoping that this community will appreciate the value that I am working for and hopefully together we can build a great experience, great techologies and outstanding products.
Regards,
Ziad