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About Me

Linux user since 2000 (Mandrake --> Mandriva), and ubuntu user since June 2007. I joined the ubuntu-tn on the same month as normal member and I become the team owner and administrator on April 2008. I'm one of the core members of the Tunisian Local Community. I'm one of the founders of the approved Tunisian Loco Team ubuntu-tn and I'm the Loco Team contact. My main goal is to promote Ubuntu in Tunisia, with a focus to Tunisian universities as I'm an university teacher.

Contact details

• irc.freenode.org: nizarus
• Email: nizar [dot] kerkeni [at] gmail.com

• Launchpad profile : https://edge.launchpad.net/~nizarus

• Blog: http://nizaurs.blogspot.com/

Contributions

Ubuntu-tn

• Administrator and Owner of Ubuntu-tn Management Committee team on Launchpad. This team is reserved to the members of the elected Loco Team Management Committee .

• Administrator and Owner of ubuntu-tn-users team on Launchpad. This team is open for all Tunisian ubuntu users.

• I actively participated to mounting the Tunisian local community with my presence on the irc channel and advertising the team in FOSS Tunisian teams.

• Participation in the Tunisia Software Freedom Day 2007 as a member of ubuntu-tn group : Installation and Presentation of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

• In the Ubuntu-tn Management Committee, I'm the coordinator of the International Relationships Group. My mission in this group is to ensure the opening of the ubuntu-tn team on the international environment by maintaining regular contact with the Loco Council and Collaborating with other Loco Teams.

• Member of Ubuntu Arabic Translators team

  • Translating official ubuntu packages to Arabic. Packages to translate are assigned by the Ubuntu Arabic Translators team Leader.

  • I worked on gnome-mount

  • I'm working on update-manager

• Launchpad

  • Bugs. Mainly reporting bugs of ubuntu development versions. Also reporting bugs of some softwares that I use usually.

  • Translations (Arabic and French).

    • In addition to my translations on the Ubuntu Arabic Translators team, I participate on the translation of other projects hosted on Launchpad. Some of this projects :

      • AptOnCD : French and Arabic

      • Ubuntu Tweak : French and arabic

      • bluez-gnome : Arabic

      • SchoolTool : Arabic and French

      • checkbox : Arabic

  • Answers (Arabic, French and English). Generally I look if there is some Arabic or French questions and I try to help by answering or indicating some useful links.

  • Blue Prints

• ubuntu documents :

  • I wrote a contribution to Laptop Testing Sony VGN-FE31H wiki page.

• ubuntu-fr :
  • I wrote wiki documents about my hardware :

    • My Laptop

    • My mouse

  • I always visit the forum to ask, answer and help the French community.

• Blogging about FOSS, ubuntu and Tunisia : http://nizaurs.blogspot.com

• Frequently on #ubuntu-tn for supporting and building Tunisian community.

Future involvement

• Contribute with Tunisian Loco members to validate the Tunisian Loco Road Map

• Contribute to mount an Arabic community with Arabic Loco Teams (Jordan, Morocco, etc...)
  • Offering an Arabic support (documentation and forum) to ubuntu Arabic community
• Contribute to a twining between ubuntu-tn and ubuntu-fr to share resources as the Tunisian community is French-speaking.

Testimonials