The Arabic Open Source Community: Arabic LUGs

If you want to know the state of the Arabic Linux User Groups just have a short visit to their websites. They are not only unwilling/unable to have some community activities, but -even online- they are not able to create a virtual space for Linux fans, professionals or newbies.
These are some screenshots of the home pages of these groups, ordered from the biggest #FAIL to the biggest #OK :)

Linux Arabia (http://www.linuxarabia.com)

I think this was expected to be a Linux portal for all Arab countries. Actually I do not remember this website, but as others mentioned here, I found it on Arabeyes.org (I will write my opinion about Arabeyes in another post).
Anyways, the Linux Arabia site shows only cheap ads, they do not own the domain anymore. #FAIL

Saudi LUG (http://www.linux.org.sa)

It looks the Saudi LUG (if there was one) do not have anymore both the website and the domain name. It is sad that the biggest Arabic country in the Middle East has no groups for Linux. #FAIL

Iraqi Linux Users Group (http://www.iraqilinux.org)

"It works!", not really... These guys did not even remove the default Apache index.html page. #FAIL

Jordan Linux User Group - JoLUG (http://jolug.net)

It shows only this text: "jolug.org". I remember a website was here (I am a "member"), but since no activities or news never happened it became extremely outdated. They used to have an old Drupal 5 CMS with no design at all. #FAIL

Kuwait Linux Users Group (http://www.q8linux.net)

You will get this scary message when you try to open their website: "Your attention please: You have attempted to access this site with an invalid IP". Of course there is nothing else. #FAIL

Linux Dubai (http://www.linux-dubai.com)

I got a "509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" error, the only thing you can get from this website is that they use Apache and -obviously- Linux. This is hypothetically the only LUG in United Arab Emirates. #FAIL

Lebanese GNU/Linux Users Group (http://www.leglug.org)

This latest news on this website are 3 year old. The LUG was very technical oriented and no community events were held, their site shows a list of technical meetings, the last from 2007. #FAIL

Palestinian Linux Users Group (http://www.plug.ps)

Good website (it is in Arabic), it seems they organized an InstallFest in April 2010, unfortunately the event before was in October 2007 and the last posts in the forums are from 1 year ago, do not expect this group is very active but let's wish them all of luck! #OK

GNU Linux Maroc (http://www.linux-maroc.org)

For this website I had to re-open my school's French books. It seems that Moroccan LUG is doing some activities, in 2010, they had some lectures, free software days and an Open Source competition. Chapeau! #OK

Egyptian Linux Users Group (EGLUG) (http://eglug.org)

The last months of EGLUG were really busy: training sessions, courses, installation festivals from what it seems to be an energetic and vibrant community. The group has an active Facebook group and a Twitter account. #OK