||<>|| {{attachment:me.png}} = About = I am Karim Fayez from Egypt, I am 25 years old and still getting older, I live in Cairo city:: the city that never sleeps. I am a petroleum wireline logging engineer and computer administration is my main hobby but I really prefere it more than work...anyways.. I have started working with linux in the september of 2004 -after hearing about it for four years and didnt have a chance to try- by trying many distros like Redhat, Whitebox, mandrake, Suse, Fedora, and others then I got introduced to ubuntu by the release 5.04 through [[http://distrowatch.com|Distrowatch]] as i was caught by the brilliant idea of shipping free CDs and from that time I have been using it and proud to be an unbuntu loyal user... Through the last year I worked on convincing people to switch to Ubuntu and I succeeded in switching around 100 persons totally in addition to my company which now uses several GNU/Linux distros including my favorite Ubuntu. Through that time I kept thinking of building a LoCo team of ubuntu in Egypt as to enhance the availability and the knowledge about linux and the open source foundation. I consulted couple of my friends and here we go starting the team which i believe will rock... Ubuntu-EG.. and just before it was announced officially we managed to give two GNU/Linux introduction trainings one of them was held inside the university and the other was for a group of people who wanted to learn about it and i believe some of them are eager to switch soon, after that I conducted a sponsored session in the faculty of engineering in ain shams university with over 75 attendees and we distributed lots of Ubuntu CDs and I think lots of them had already switched.. '''LOCO page''': [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam|Egypt Team]] '''Launchpad''': [[https://launchpad.net/~karimfayez|Karim Fayez]] '''Ubuntu forums''': [[http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?find=lastposter&t=428428|KimFiz]] '''Email''': karim.fayez@gmail.com '''IRC'''(freenode): karimfayez '''Linux user''': #397067 = Involvement = == Community == {*} [[EgyptTeam]] Leader and LoCoTeamContact. {*} IRC #ubuntu-eg operator. {*} [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-eg|Ubuntu-EG Mailing List]] administrator (n/a). {*} Active in channels and on lists. {*} Passing out Ubuntu CDs to any and all that are interested. {*} Member of [[https://launchpad.net/~egyptlocoteam|Egypt loco Launchpad team]]. {*} Member of [[https://launchpad.net/~mapdevs|Map developers Launchpad team]]. {*} Member of [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntumembers|Ubuntu members Launchpad team]]. {*} Testing of Ubuntu Dapper Drake. {*} Testing of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. = Personal Goals For 2008 = {*} Become an Ubuntu Member. {*} Upgrading my position in my company {*} Exploring my own business. {*} Travel to Canada this year. {*} Change my car. = Goals For Egypt LoCo Team For 2007 = {*} Help the team grow in technical ability and size. {*} Become an Approved LoCo team. {*} Being mentioned in the media as Ubuntu and as a LOCO team. {*} Be able to switch 100 persons at least by the end of this year to Ubuntu. {*} Organize an installation fest. {*} Start Linux trainings. (./) = The Future = I just wish i can make a difference in the way people think and to know that there is always a better way. I enjoy working with all the wonderful people in this community to help Ubuntu grow and be strong, and I hope to remain a part of it. Wish us good luck, Thanks, {{attachment:kim.png}} ---- CategoryHomepage