10-13 September 2012, Hammamet, Tunisia.

Over the past two decades, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has introduced new successful models for creating, distributing, acquiring and using software and software-based services. Inspired by the success of FLOSS, other forms of open initiatives have been gaining momentum. Open source systems (OSS) now extend beyond software to include open access, open documents, open science, open education, open government, open cloud, open hardware, open artworks and museum exhibits, open innovation and more. On the one hand, the openness movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as the emergence of new business models, knowledge exchange mechanisms, and collective development approaches. On the other hand, the movement has introduced new kinds of challenges, especially as different problem domains embrace openness as a pervasive problem solving strategy. OSS can be complex yet widespread and often cross-cultural. Consequently, they require an interdisciplinary understanding of their technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.

The goal of 8th. International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2012, the first to be held in Africa, is to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public sector, and diverse OSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer, no matter which form of OSS is being pursued.

OSS 2012 accepts submissions in the following categories: research papers, industry papers, formal tool demonstrations, lightning talks and posters. OSS 2012 also invites proposals for tutorials and workshops, submissions to the doctoral symposium, and submissions of panels. The major conference theme is long-term sustainability with OSS.

For more informations visit the website oss2012.org.

Our local community is organizing for the first time in Tunisia an Ubuntu Global Jam. This event will be held from 2 to 4 September at the Private University of Sousse. In the program tests workshops, translations workshops, etc.. The event will begin with a presentation of Ubuntu and an install party open to anyone who wants to attend. And then for strategic reasons the workshops will be open only to registered members. The detailed program is available in the wiki page [1].

1. Wiki Page : Global Jam 11.09
2. Facebook Event : Ubuntu Global Jam en Tunisie.

Et comme d’habitude l’album photo de la journée est par ici : AtomCell Event 11.04.

Here is a short and quick report on the seminar organized by our local community in collaboration with the new club “Free Your Mind”. So to celebrate the birth of this new club of the Institute for Advanced Computer and Communication Technologies we were invited to ensure theanimation  of a day for students of the institute. After the opening by the institute director we started the day with a presentation of the Ubuntu distribution, followed by a presentation of Drupal CMS and the presentation of several development tools in Java. The day was concluded by distributing Ubuntu CD’s and an install party.

The photo album here : AtomCell Event 11.04.

Ouverture de la journée.

A la (re)découverte de Ubuntu.

Environnements de développement Java sous Ubuntu.

Un publique attentif.

Install Party.

Photo souvenir.

Photo souvenir.

And here is the video of this meeting :

[flv:http://nizarus.org/partage/LoCoMeeting.flv 320 240]

Download the video :

• Flash Low resolution (168 MB).
• Webm High resolution (230 MB).
• Mpeg High resolution from torrent (648 MB).

Mark on his Opening Keynote.

Ubuntu Tunisian Team LoCo meeting with Mark.

Some gifts to commemorate this event.

A dedication to our community.

More photos on this album.

[flv:http://nizarus.org/partage/OpenNote.flv 320 240]

Download the keynote video (Low resolution, mpeg format, 203MB)
MD5 : a09b5065399214977c43fe209152536f  OpenNoteLow.mpeg

Torrent :

• www.freetorrent.fr : torrent file.

Mirrors :

• http://petra.fredericrobert.be/~frederic/OpenNoteLow.mpeg. Thanks to Frederic Robert.

Download the keynote video (Low resolution, Webm format, 43MB)

• Mirror 1, Thanks to Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar.
• Mirror 2, Thanks to Zied Abid.

For the 6th National Conference on Free Software in Tunisia I created badges for members of our local community Ubuntu-tn.  That day our community saw the arrival of a new member and not least in the person of Mark Shuttleworth (HIM self). Mark has kindly accepted to wear the badge during his keynote. The badge is an adaptation of the Ubuntu business card. More information, pictures and videos as soon as possible.

Badge de Mark.

Download the SVG source file.

<nizarus> sabdfl, waiting for you in Tunisia some days
<MaWaLe> +1 nizarus
<sabdfl> nizarus: heh, i would like to come, enjoyed WSIS
<nizarus>


In two days Mark will be with us in Tunisia.
The complete IRC log of the discussion is here : log.

Mark Shuttleworth (Source Wikipedia).

L’information fait le grand buzz dans les réseaux sociaux de la communauté du Libre en Tunisie et dans les web-magazines. En effet, et a l’occasion de la 6ème édition de la Conférence Nationale sur les Logiciels Libres en Tunisie organisée par le Ministère des Technologies de la Communication le 15 décembre 2010, Mark Shuttleworth sera présent pour le keynote d’ouverture de la journée. Au programme de la conférence :

• Panels de discussion interactive  des tendances innovantes des technologies des logiciels libres.
• Ateliers pratiques et innovants pour tester et faire l’expérience de toute une gamme de solutions open source
• Le Concours des Logiciels Libres  pour récompenser le meilleur projet open source innovant Tunisien.

Le programme détaillé est  disponible ici : Programme.

This information is doing the big buzz in the social networks of the open source community in Tunisia and the web-magazines. In fact, Mark Shuttleworth will be present for the opening keynote of the 6th National Conference on Free Software in Tunisia organized by the Ministry of Communication Technologies December 15, 2010. In the program of this conference:

• Interaction and discussion panels on innovative trends of open source technologies.
• Innovative and hands-on workshops to experience a range of value-added open source solutions.
• Open Source Contest to reward the most innovative tunisian open source projects.

The detailed program is available here: Program.

You can not wait to get the countdown banners for Ubuntu 10.10? Here is an unofficial version made by kyleabaker and based on design by Anthony Scarth. This banner countdown comes in two variants orange and purple. To include one of these banners on your site, simply copy one of the scripts provided at the end of this post.

Orange

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.kyleabaker.com/fun/ubuntu1010banner/orange.js'></script>

Purple

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.kyleabaker.com/fun/ubuntu1010banner/purple.js'></script>

I love the daughter so I have to say happy birthday to the mother

C’est avec une grande tristesse que nous apprenons que notre cher ami Hatem S’hel nous a quitté jeudi dernier (17/06/2010) suite à un long combat avec la maladie. Hatem est un des membres fondateurs de notre LoCo et un fervent défenseur des logiciels libres en Tunisie.

A mon nom et au nom de tous les membres de notre communauté nous adressons nous sincères condoléances à toute sa famille.

Plus d’infos à propos de Hatem : Son Blog et son interview.

It is with great sadness that we learned that our dear friend Hatem S’hel died last Thursday (06/17/2010) after a long battle with illness. Hatem be a founding member of our LoCo and a strong supporter of free software in Tunisia.

On my behalf and on behalf of all members of our community we extend our sincere condolences to his family.

More about Hatem : His Blog and an his interview.