OpenCraft as a company has ceased to exist yet OpenCraft as a living organism of people, networks, and cyberprints will continue to exist.Read more

Egypt’s leading bookstore, Diwan, launched its long awaited site featuring all of its products from books, music, DVDs, children’s section, and stationery through a searchable catalogue with online ordering and buying options.Read more

We are excited to announce that our new website is launched (obviously) :). Visually speaking, we have a brand new design that is beautiful and usable. We focused on making it easy to find all needed information about our work and to get in touch with us.Read more

The American University in Cairo (AUC) is the region’s premier English-language university, an independent and nonprofit institution with nearly 5,000 undergraduates, and 30,000 alumni. OpenCraft, in partnership with Google, worked on enhancing the email services provided by AUC to their students, faculty, staff, and alumni by migrating to Google's email platform.Read more

As a follow up to my previous post about Al Jazeera new media initiatives, here is the latest from their new media department. Quite progressive of them being Drupal and Creative Commons and all.

Those guys at Al Jazeera are really getting it:
http://labs.aljazeera.net/
Needless to mention, it's Drupal :).

We were having a problem with a redirection issue in one of our projects. We had a page that had the url(i.e. path alias in Drupal) as /index. Whenever that page was called, Apache would append to it .php extension and the request gets routed to index.php which is NOT the desired effect.

This was due to the option "MultiViews" being enabled on our new Debian installation. For more info, read this.

I added this line to our .htaccess.Read more

Our friends at X2A Consulting are organizing the first-of-its-kind agile methodologies conference in Egypt, and we are proud to give support to that great effort. Find out more!

We recently redesigned the SOS Music Festival site, one of our pro-bono community contributions, to coincide with the seventh iteration of that event, which will be held on February 29th at the Chinese Garden (Nasr City, Cairo). You'll need to fill a questionnaire to get your invitations, so get moving!

As part of OpenCraft's commitment to contributing to ICT4D and software localization, Abdel-Karim Mardini from OpenCraft is participating in The second workshop of the Pan African Localisation project, "PAL2" which is being held in Tshwane, South Africa, on 5-7 November 2007.Read more