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A Thank You Letter from the Egyptian Government

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A couple of days ago, I received a thank you letter that is dedicated to my beloved eSpace , and the team of volunteers behind www.estefta2.eg . The letter was from MSAD, " Ministry of State for Administrative Development ", Although I had not expected such a thing, but it felt nice. The story goes back to last month, about 10 days before the referendum on the Constitutional Amendments. I was, along with other eSpacians, notified that there is an urgent need for the referendum website. Everyone of us had his own running project, tight schedule and deadline.. So it was key clear that doing this means volunteering our own after-work-hours time. We were so excited because we've always wished to contribute in building the country, in our own field, Web Development. We were a little bit concerned about working with the government due to the expected bureaucracy, But the team of MSAD that we dealt with was really cooperative and worked with the same spirit that we did. We were