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Photos of the National Conference on Open Source Software in Tunisia
Tunisie
Mark Shuttleworth opening keynote
Here is the video of the opening ceremony of the 6th edition of the National Conference on Open Source Software in Tunisia, on December 15th 2010. This video (of one hour) includes :
– The welcome message (in Arabic, French and English) by Mrs. Lamia Chaffai Sghaier, Secretary of State for Information Technology, Internet and Open Source, Ministry of Communication Technologies, Tunisia.
– The Keynote of Mark Shuttleworth.
– The discussion following the keynote.
[flv:http://nizarus.org/partage/OpenNote.flv 320 240]
Download the keynote video (Low resolution, mpeg format, 203MB)
MD5 : a09b5065399214977c43fe209152536f OpenNoteLow.mpeg
Torrent :
- www.freetorrent.fr : torrent file.
Mirrors :
- http://petra.fredericrobert.be/~frederic/OpenNoteLow.mpeg. Thanks to Frederic Robert.
Download the keynote video (Low resolution, Webm format, 43MB)
Badges
A l’occasion de la 6ème Conférence Nationale sur les Logiciels Libres en Tunisie, j’ai créé des badges pour les membres de notre communauté locale Ubuntu-tn. Notre communauté qui ce jours là a vu l’arriver d’un nouveau membre et non des moindres 🙂 en la personne de Mark Shuttleworth (him self). Mark a gentillement accepter de porter ce badge au cours de son keynote. Le badge est une adaptation de la carte de visite Ubuntu. Plus d’informations, de photos et de vidéos dans les prochains jours.
For the 6th National Conference on Free Software in Tunisia I created badges for members of our local community Ubuntu-tn. That day our community saw the arrival of a new member and not least 🙂 in the person of Mark Shuttleworth (HIM self). Mark has kindly accepted to wear the badge during his keynote. The badge is an adaptation of the Ubuntu business card. More information, pictures and videos as soon as possible.
Download the SVG source file.
Two years later
Two years ago we (me and Tunisian LoCo members) had this little chat with Mark (alias sabdfl).
<nizarus> sabdfl, waiting for you in Tunisia some days ;-)
<MaWaLe> +1 nizarus
<sabdfl> nizarus: heh, i would like to come, enjoyed WSIS
<nizarus> :)
In two days Mark will be with us in Tunisia.
The complete IRC log of the discussion is here : log.
Mark Shuttleworth en Tunisie
L’information fait le grand buzz dans les réseaux sociaux de la communauté du Libre en Tunisie et dans les web-magazines. En effet, et a l’occasion de la 6ème édition de la Conférence Nationale sur les Logiciels Libres en Tunisie organisée par le Ministère des Technologies de la Communication le 15 décembre 2010, Mark Shuttleworth sera présent pour le keynote d’ouverture de la journée. Au programme de la conférence :
- Panels de discussion interactive des tendances innovantes des technologies des logiciels libres.
- Ateliers pratiques et innovants pour tester et faire l’expérience de toute une gamme de solutions open source
- Le Concours des Logiciels Libres pour récompenser le meilleur projet open source innovant Tunisien.
Le programme détaillé est disponible ici : Programme.
This information is doing the big buzz in the social networks of the open source community in Tunisia and the web-magazines. In fact, Mark Shuttleworth will be present for the opening keynote of the 6th National Conference on Free Software in Tunisia organized by the Ministry of Communication Technologies December 15, 2010. In the program of this conference:
- Interaction and discussion panels on innovative trends of open source technologies.
- Innovative and hands-on workshops to experience a range of value-added open source solutions.
- Open Source Contest to reward the most innovative tunisian open source projects.
The detailed program is available here: Program.
Journée Ubuntu à l’ISIM de Monastir
Suite à une longue trêve estivale, notre communauté reprend doucement son activité de promotion et de présentation de la distribution Ubuntu et des logiciels libres. Cette fois nous étions invité à l’Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et de Mathématiques de Monastir (ISIMM) par le club ISIMUX, le club des logiciels libres de l’Institut pour présenter Ubuntu et les logiciels libres aux étudiants.
La journée, qui s’est déroulé le 23 Octobre 2010, a commencée par une suite de présentations faite par les différents membres de la communauté.
- Nizar Kerkeni : A la (re)découverte de Ubuntu.
- Ahmed Sghaier : La virtualisation sous Ubuntu (.PDF)
- Karim Sayadi : La sécurité des systèmes Linux (.PDF)
Les étudiants et le publique présent (environ une cinquantaine) ont participé aux discussions qui suivaient chaque présentation et a la fin de la première partie de la journée il ont eu droit à un CD d’installation de Ubuntu.
Après une courte pause déjeuné, les membres de notre communauté ont animé une install party avec les étudiants qui ont apportés leur ordinateurs portables. Ces derniers ont eu comme cadeau un lot de stickers offert à la communauté par notre ami Chemseddine alias Kangoulya.
Album photos : http://ubuntu.nizarus.tn/AtomCellEvent1010
Le Festival de la médina de Sayada propulsé par le libre
Pour ça troisième session, le Festival de la médina de Sayada s’offre une compagne publicitaire 100% libre. En effet, les affiches, le dépliant, les invitations et les banderoles publicitaires qu’on peut apercevoir partout dans la ville sont réalisés avec des outils libres et le tout sous Ubuntu. D’ailleurs, le thème des couleurs adopté peut vous renseigner sur la version utilisée de Ubuntu 😉
Ces œuvres, et d’autres encore, ont était réalisées avec les outils Inkscape et Gimp. Leur auteur, un membre du comité d’organisation du festival et un grand passionné du libre, me confirme qu’elles sont toutes publiées sous licence libre.
Pour plus d’informations le blog du Festival : http://medinasayada.blogspot.com/
Linux & Certification Day @ ISI Mahdia
ISIMa event (Istitut Supérieure d’Informatique de Mahdia / Higher Institute of Computer Science of Mahdia) started one day before in the evening, when I had to travel to Monastir to stay at GoldenScorp’s home. The Same was for Akira who travelled to Mahdia to stay with his friend from Mahdia.
At night I connect to #ubuntu-tn IRC channel to get the Drupal and NetBeans presentations from RachedTN, who unfortunately was not able to attend to to ISIMa event after a last time change at work. Well I got the presentations that I tried to prepare a little before going to sleep.
Awake early the morning, I went with Goldenscorp to join nizarus on the way to Mahdia where we met Mr Imed Hamouda, Dr. Tech. Adjunct Professor at Tempare University of Technology, who came from Finland to give a conference about Open Source. In fact, it was a good opportunity for him to see a part of the Tunisian Free and Open Source community in action.
Received by ISIMa staff, Mr Salaheddine, we joined the other ubuntu-tn members (tarekDJ, Akira and his friend) who was already there and we had a little talk with ISIMa’s director Mr Hammadi Ben Naceur. After, LPI Maghreb joined us few minutes later, we started with ubuntu and free software introduction presented by nizarus in front of more than a 100 students and few professors and staff from ISIMa and LPI Maghreb.
The presentation was very interesting introducing the software freedom philosophy. How easy, reliable, stable and secure to use ubuntu. I think it was very useful to the present students, they learned about a different operating system.
The next conference was about certifications, presented by LPI Maghreb who introduced it very well as they talked about it’s importance, the different available certifications, how to prepare for it, how to pass the exam as they talked also about the importance of certifications for enterprises and business not only for students and professionals.
With the impressive interaction between the presenters and the present people asking and answering questions, TarekDJ took a little reward from LPI Maghreb for his great effort designing the event’s poster before we took a little break.
In that few minutes I connect my laptop to the data show to check everything is fine and I played a little with my lamp installation before I started the Drupal conference.
I introduced the new concept of web CMS and how easy it is now to make a website comparing to how people did it few years ago, presenting the basics of free software and web CMS I showed them some examples of what Drupal can do based real web sites developed using Drupal. When we talk about Drupal we have also to talk about web servers and implementing their websites, so I also talked about LAMP and how they can install it and use it on their computers.
Finally the last conference was about NetBeans IDE that varied from the basics to some advanced talk. I showed them how to install it on their systems as I talked about it’s portability and availability on other operating systems. The interaction was quiet good with both of Drupal and NetBeans conferences.
Losing a lot of energy presenting and following all the conferences, everybody got hungry so we had to go for lunch in ISET’s restaurant where we had an interesting talk.
The last thing we have to do now is to make the first step of practice. It’s the install party where nizarus had to show them how to install ubuntu in practice assisting few students who wanted to install ubuntu on their laptops and distributing ubuntu install CDs to some other students who wanted to install or try it on their computers.
In the end of the install party, the famous GNU showed up, so we had a nice time taking pictures with him before we say good bye to Akira and TarekDJ.
After having some coffee in Al-Mashmoom, we went back home with nizarus who took me and GoldenScorp to Monastir before going back to Sayada, then I left GoldenScorp to take the Metro back to Sousse.
The event was really good for me, for ubuntu-tn and for ISIMa as I have seen some of ISIMa’s students connecting to our IRC channel and subscribing to ubuntu-tn forums. I just hope the impact of the day is beyond this and it ends with future ubuntu users and even contributors, who knows 🙂
Report by Ahmed alias Neo31.
Photo album : http://ubuntu.nizarus.tn/v/isima1004/