About me

• 31 years old.
• Academic cursus : Computing Engineer

• IT Manager in a Government Institution. Consultant and approved trainer.

• A Linux user since I was 18. My 3 years old son is also an Ubuntero and he likes specially Frozen-Bubble .

• I'm doing my best to contribute to the development of the Ubuntu community mainly via my LoCo Team

• Big supporter of the use of Free Software and follower of the philosophy of Open Source. Since my contact with Ubuntu I'm doing my best to spread its ideology in my family and professional nearby.

• Ubuntu Member since june 2 ^nd, 2009.

Interests

• Linux & Ubuntu

• Computer
• Games
• Humanitarian and associative activities
• Reading
• Cinema
• ...

Contact

• Email : mawale(at)ubuntu.com

• IRC : MaWaLe on freenode : #ubuntu-tn #ubuntu-fr and other channels.

• Launchpad page

Ubuntu activity

• Tunisian LoCo Team Member and member of Ubuntu Tunisian Team and Ubuntu-Tn Management Committee

• Coordinator of the Redaction Team (Elected at the 4th meeting): I participate actively in drafting content for the site or other media for the use of the Team. I also coordinate and mentor the activities of the other members who participates in the activities of the Redaction Team. Since 10 February 2009, I release my position as Coordinator of the Redaction Team to become Coordinator of the Events Team.

• Web&Tech Team Member : I participate actively in configuring the hosting server of the alpha site of my LoCo Team (The Website Project) . In the future, i'll look after the administration of the final server and the site with the Web&Tech Team.

• in my work, i am doing consulting tasks which always leads to the migration of customers to Ubuntu

• I actively paricipated in the TunisianTeam apparition in the Software Freedom Day 2008. Here is a pic of me in that event and here is another one. I also monitor the install-party of the day.

• I participate on Saturday November 15th,at the high Institute of multimedia and computer sciences of Sfax, Tunisia (ISIMS), where I introduced the quality of the famous Ubuntu operating system with a booth and conferences. Here's some pics of the event. Link in the Tunisian Team Reporting.

• Preparing an action which will be held in an engineering school (ENIS : National School of enineering of Sfax). The goal of the project is to migrate the platform of the school to Ubuntu and providing assistance to the administratif staff. Here's a draft of the project.

• Participate to the Conf'Day of the CLLfST (Open Source Club of the University of Sciences of Tunis) on the november 20th, 2008. During this day I present Ubuntu and present the virtualisation under Ubuntu (the presentation). Pics of the event. Another pics. Link in the Tunisian Team Reporting.

• I participate actively to the organisation of the ENIS EVENT 8.12 (December, 20 and 21 2008). during this days, i held three presentations (Ubuntu for Human Beings, Migration from MS Office to OOo, Virtualization under Ubuntu with VirtualBox). I also particpate to the migration of the PCs to Ubuntu and setting up a local depot to serve the ENIS. The opening 'ceremony' :). The first presentation. A little break with another Ubuntu-tn member. Virutalization presentation. Discussion with the assistance at the end of the first day. Another pic of the first day. Going to have a diner :). A late-night meeting. The Install Party. Report team for this event.

• Modest participation on the Launchpad

• Always connected on the IRC Channels #ubuntu-tn, #ubuntu-tn-meeting, #ubuntu-tn-classroom (except sleep's time ) and on the #ubuntu-fr Channel, for supporting and building Tunisian Community.

• Actif on the ubuntu-tn ML

• Participate in drafting and validating WiKi pages for the ubuntu-tn Team

January 2009

• I participate to the ENIS EVENT 9.01 (January, 23-24-25th 2009). This event goals was to have conferences for the students and leads to the integral migration of the ENIS to Ubuntu (over than 1000 PCs and Laptops). WiKi page of the EVENT.

February 2009

• As the coordinator of the Event Group, I supervised the planification of the ISETS EVENT 9.02 where i presented some conferences and animated the install party. This event was held at the High Institute of Technologic Studies => The event was a success and we had many install party.Pics for the event

March 2009

• Supervising the planning and taking part at the FSEGS EVENT 9.03 which was held the 14^th march at the University of Management and Economic Sciences of Sfax.

• Supervising the planning of the Ras Jebel EVENT 9.03 which was held the 21 march at Bizerte.

April 2009

• Supervising the planning and taking part at the ISETSBZ EVENT 9.04 which was held the 4^th april at the High Institute of technologic Studies of Sidi Bouzid.

• Supervising the planning and taking part at the ESSEC EVENT 9.04

• Supervising and taking part at the ARIANA EVENT 9.04

May 2009

• Supervising the planning and taking part at the ENIG EVENT 9.05 which was held the 8^th and 9^th may at the National Engineering School of Gabes.

Future involvement

• I proposed the creation of a drafting team which had to draft help documents and elaborate the guidelines of stabdard writing. Actually i am an active member of this team which is supervised by the Coordinator of the Redaction Team of the Tunisian LoCo

• Insure the development and the administration of ubuntu-tn.org.

• I'll be a member of the association which will represent the LoCo Team with the Government Institution.

• Continue my involvement in the LoCo Team and planning to monitor the certification (LPI) of the members of my LoCo Team.

• As coordinator of the Events Team, i am planning to have a bootcamp for the members of the Tunsian LoCo and for this summer we will plan (with the help of the other members of the Management Committee) a summer school.

Testimonials

nizarus : Mawale joined our young Loco Team after the approval in July 2008. He quickly integrate the group an began one of the most active members. In Loco team management committee we elected him as a members because we believe in his contribution to spin up the Loco activity. He heavily participated to Loco team organisation and participation in the Tunisia SFD'2008. He was one of the most active and appreciated LoCo members during the Enis Event 8.12 and the Enis Event 9.01. I believe that Mawale will make a good ubuntu member.

ALAYA [30-01-2009]: Mawale is one of the most active member in our Ubuntu-tn LoCo team. He participated actively in the preparation of all event since he joint the LoCo and he was always ready to help users on the channel and the ML.

Chaker ZAAFOURI [26-05-2009]: Mawale is a leader, he organized/participated the best ubutu events of our Loco Team. He is a guru with excellent technical skills. He help many people and he answer to many request on ML and IRC. Mawale is an UBUNTERO and he's the example to follow.

Hatem S'hel [30-05-2009] Mawale is a leader, one of the most active member in the team. he organized/participated to the biggest ubuntu events of our Team, the Enis Event 9.01, he is also the maestro of the enis event 8.12 and the Enig Event 9.04. He help many people on ML and IRC and he is doeing a hard job to build a special network in the country to promote the use of ubuntu, and to provide a first support to ubuntu user.