Hanen Ben Rhouma

Revision 63 as of 2009-03-25 09:40:20

Clear message

All paths lead to nowhere
Despite the touted hype
Maybe I should try a new path
And follow it, as if on a dare.
After all, I'm not exactly to type
Because others see me in different ways.
They pretend I am with them, and that they care.

I am tired of the accepted ways
In which we all are bound.
For even in these "enlightened" days
People really do seem silly
As they act and live to the sound
Of the noises they have created.
And a slave to, if they but knew.

Yes, I need to find another path, "the one less traveled".
I need to escape and find a place
Where there is peace of mind.
Where sanity exists and people aren't
Deliberately and knowingly unkind.

About

Rebellious by nature, curious by training, stubborn by thinking & engineering by profession...
I'm a 24 years old Tunisian application developer/tech enthusiast/Java-oholic + Web addict and Linux fan who wants to make a difference...
Humanitarian -and pleased to be- dreamer and believer who just want to learn, enjoy life and envision a better world for all Smile :)
My interest in Linux stems back to 2004, when curiosity got the better of me and I began using SUSE 9.0. Now I run Kubuntu as my default laptop Operating System and also have a Fedora partition (which sometimes runs Linux too Tongue out :-? ).
By August 2008, I've joined our Tunisia LoCo Team which is an open team of people interested in helping with Ubuntu distribution, promotion and demonstration within Tunisia. You can meet them in #ubuntu-tn on the Freenode network.

Passions

  • Avid reader & occasional writer

  • Producing & exchanging values

  • Soothing my soul

  • Stimulating my mind

  • Computing

  • Drenching in the rain

  • Hiking

Professional

Education: Master Degree.

Major: Information & Technology.

Occupation: Software Engineer, Java/J2EE Developer.

Industry: High Tech, Computer Software.

Job Description: Architect solutions for distributed and enterprise computing using Java/J2EE technologies.

Career Skills: SOA, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, XML, Java, OSGi, J2EE, J2SE, JDBC, JNDI, EJB, JMX, JNI, SNMP, Web Services, Java-based Open Source Technologies, RMI, Swing, Web Development (Servlets, JSP, JSF, Struts, AJAX, Google Web Toolkit), Spring MVC/WS/DM, Hibernate, Toplink, Equinox, Jasper, Knopflerfish, Netbeans IDE, Eclipse RCP, JBoss, Glassfish, Apache Tomcat.

Career Interests: Web Services, SOA, OSGi, Cloud Computing, consulting opportunities, finding business partners, finding co-founders & team mates, learning about entrepreneurship, meeting new people, patenting my ideas.

Just Another Story

Back to the "old" days when I was at the university, a memorable teacher told me that the toughest problem of gathering a working team of highly skilled to brilliant-considered individuals was that those guys ego was bigger than a whole museum, they would avoid cooperating with each other in the pursuit of demonstrating that they were the best overall and could undertake the whole task without the aid of anyone!

He was right...

I had come to observe that really brilliant or knowledgeable people (up to geniuses), don't behave that way. They know what they're worth, and thus don't have to demonstrate anything.

Even more, the latter ones are the most cooperative, encouraging and open to share their valuable knowledge, when it comes to help their colleagues to improve their skills.

The excellent news is that being a genius is not a requirement for adopting that working spirit Smile :) !

Interests

"Simplifying takes effort and clear thinking. Complicating just needs a confusing mind."

My vision is that Ubuntu will become a major platform for scientific research, teaching, computing and program development. One way of achieving this goal is to make sure that as many science applications as possible are available as packages that readily can be installed.

Linux is extremely well suited for teaching in higher education, because high quality software is available free of cost and freely distributable. Teachers in a course could simply hand out a copy of the CD to all their students, who could take it home and work with the relevant problems. It would be a great opportunity to present students to Linux wonders!

It's equally important that young talents have access to a stable platform well suited for program development. Linux is such a platform, with lots of tools, even sophisticated IDEs are available. What's important here is that the standard libraries used within the various scientific communities, are available in packages, so valuable time is saved getting this infrastructure set up.

If Ubuntu/Debian becomes a solid scientific platform, it will also encourage people to publish their software under a free software license (which has not been customary in our community) given the precious privilege of possibly getting their software into the distribution.

I'm very motivated to engage in work on an Ubuntu Science Edition. I imagine the debtags system might be something that could be helpful in this regard. While a standard, installable edition would certainly be desirable, it would also be extremely useful with a live CD, that could contain scientific software, databases, and various types of documentation. Perhaps the installable Science Edition could even include tools that would enable teachers to add their own custom material to the CD.

Such a free and user-friendly distribution can bring through its Open Source culture a quality education that fosters passionate, enthusiastic and ongoing expansion of knowledge and better educational approaches on behalf of young cooperating tech-savvy generations.

SIMPLE THINGS CAN MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE FOR SCHOOLS!

Contact Details

CategoryJavaTeam