Short presentation

I'm « Zied ALAYA » from Tunisia.
I use Ubuntu since the summer of 2006.
I exclusively a Ubuntu user since October 2007 to prove to myself and to others that open source softwares can be used with same, or better, effectiveness that closed software.

Occupation

I'm now a trainer in a private high school [1].

Contact

• Official: <zied.alaya AT SPAMFREE esprit DOT ens DOT tn>

• Personnel: <alaya.zied AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>

• IRC: ALAYA on network irc.freenode.net

Activities

• Software Freedom Day 2008 (29 October 2008)

  • Visit the Software Freedom Day's website (http://www.sfdtunisia.org/) for more information.

  • esprit, where I work, was one of the sponsors.

  • I took part with Ubuntu-tn in this event by a workshop on VirtualBox.
    
    

• Godfather of "esprit libre" club

  • I'm one of two teachers who support and encourage the activity of the "esprit libre" club.

• ENIS event 8.12 and migration project (20 and 21 Dec 2008)

  • ENIS is one of the most oldest and respectful high school in Tunisia (website). It's in Sfax (about 300 Km away from Tunis where I live).

  • I participate with Ubuntu-tn team in the install party and workshops of the first day. here our preparation for the event.

  • I participate with Ubuntu-tn team in the migration project in the second day.

• ENIS event 9.01 and migration project (23, 24 and 25 Jan 2009)

  • This three day was to ensure the success of the first ENIS event 8.12
  • More then 200 machines was migrated successfully from Windows XP to Ubuntu 8.04 (this action was initied in the first ENIS event 8.12)

  • in the first day: I participate with a conference about the economic model in FOSS world and how he choice of open source software can be better. Link to the presentation

  • in the second day: I participate with a conference about C/C++ programming under Ubuntu. I spoke about GTK+ and Qt and how they are Cross-Platform. Link to the presentation
    

• Prepare Ubuntu-tn as approved LoCo Team

  • I was one of the active member who prepare the necessary details to push Ubuntu-tn (Tunisian Team) to be one of the approved LoCo Team.

  • here an article of newspaper "Tunis Hebdo" which speaks about the approval of our team with a photo of some member who was present in the first meeting of the team to prepare the approval and discuss our committee management board jobs. I am the third in top while counting starting from left.
    
    

Blog

Here my blog page.

I believe

I deeply believe in Free Open Source Software philosophy.
I believe that FOSS model is/can be a better business model and Ubuntu is on the right way to be a successful business model.

Testimonials

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Links

[1]http://www.esprit.ens.tn
[2]My Blog
[3]https://launchpad.net/~alaya-zied
[4]https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tn-users

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