[ubuntu-tn] Software Freedom Day

Jeu 9 Aou 14:16:27 UTC 2012

Dear all,

First, I want to apologise for any offences you may have percieved or any
inconveniences caused by my previous email. But be sure that never was or
is my intention to discourage the SFD Tunisia event organisation. Actually,
I think that I was misunderstood.

Just to let you know, I am aware of the openness of SFD and SFI, because I
was even a member of SFI and involved in the organization of SFD 2007 (with
SFI, not only the Tunisian event).

Most importantly, I am highly encouraging the initiative of having again
SFD organized in Tunisia. Recall, I was the first one to register for SFD
and organise it for the first year (2006) and we won an IBM server that is
still under the dust and none wanted to use it even for simple experiments.
In 2007 we were not able to participate because I was in the organizing
comity of SFD and in 2008 we also won also a honorary consideration. This
means that all previous events were successful and making use of their
ressources might same time and money.

When I said breaking the chain, I ment: why not joining the mailing list
SFD_Tunisia and launch one more time a call through that channel?  Why not
contacting previous events directors for giving you acess to all available
ressources including the mailing list, website, reports, etc.? none have
contacted me or any other SFD directors of the past events!

The mailing list for example contains organizers, contributors and
partipants of all the past events which includes: DFSA, CLLFST,
ESPRITLibre, Fedora-Tunisia, FreeWays, Info+, JockerInfo, LibertySoft,
Securitnets, FreeSoft'com et bien sur Ubuntu-tn.

@Nizar, the problem of the Open Source Community in Tunisia is that "none
wants to work under the umbrella of others" in other words none wants to
join other efforts. A simple example, why looking for establishing new
associations knowing that there are others that exist but none is looking
to revive them!

For the www.softwarefreedomday.tn, it is a very nice idea, actually I was
paying for www.sfdtunisia.org for 3 years but then I stopped because none
wanted to take of it after me! but we still have
http://sfdtunisia.freehostia.com/ available online.

One more thing, I am not looking to be one of the organizers of SFD Tunisia
or even being of any kind of influence, because I have been since 2009
overwhelmed by organizing it here in Ireland but I am feeling some pinch
when seeing the previous efforts in Tunisia being vanished!

Regards,
Wassim

2012/8/9 Nizar Kerkeni <nizarus at ubuntu.com>

>  Bonjour à tous,
> Wassim, si les anciennes ressources n'ont pas était utilisée c'est qu'il y
> a certainement un mauvaise gestion des ces ressources.
> Bref, l'initiative de faire revivre le SFD est à encourager même si elle
> casse la chaîne déjà cassée des autres SFD.
> Le soucis de notre communauté et qu'elle est dispercée sur des dizaines de
> groupes et des dizaines de listes ce qui rend la coordination délicate et
> le retour d’expérience inexistant.
> Il y a eu une première initiative pour regrouper la communauté
> http://zied.abid.be/blog/index.php?article3/cullt-reloaded mais ça n'a
> pas bien fonctionné.
> Dernièrement il y a eu la création d'une association HackerScope
> http://hackerspace.tn (liste en copie membre at hackerspace.tn) qui souhaite
> regrouper la communauté Tunisienne du Libre et elle fait du bon travail et
> j'espère que tout les membres laisserons leur égoïsme de coté et joindrons
> leur efforts car nous avons tous les mêmes objectifs.
> D'ailleurs je propose de créer un nom de domaine www.softwarefreedomday.tnpour regrouper tout ce qui est en relation avec le SFD Tunisia depuis la
> première session. Que pensez vous ?
> Librement.
>
> Le 08/08/2012 15:17, Habib M. KAMMOUN a écrit :
>
> Dear Wassim,
>
>  Ramadhan Mubarak & Thanks for your email!
>
>  SFD is an annual worldwide celebration of Free Software organized by the
> DFI (Aka SFI). It can be organized in different regions in the same
> country. So, any local team can organize a local SF Day.
>
>  Personally, I heard about the international SFD in 2009 and I saw that
> SFD events in Tunisia was organized only in Tunis (capital) with no
> participation of clubs outside Tunis. Me and my colleagues in ENIS (Sfax)
> planned to organize next year an SFD event in ENIS respecting the same
> international day (it was on 18 Sept. 2010).
> http://sfd.ieee-enis.org/?page_id=6
>
>  In 2011, since we haven't seen the organization of other SFD event in
> Tunis (in 2010 & 2011), we cooperate with the TunAndroid community to
> organize a bigger event (called SFD Tunisia) outside Tunis with the
> participation of students from different universities in Tunisia (we
> offered some buses for students travel) and with the participation of an
> international speaker from Google.
> This event was selected as one of the best 3 organized events worldwide.
>
>  After this success, we submitted with the TunAndroid Community a
> proposal to organize the 1st SFD summit in the Monastir Science Palace. Our
> proposal was selected (not yet officially announced) and the summit will be
> organized in 2013. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SfdSummit
>
>  So, in order to prepare a good local organizing team, we plan to
> organize an SFD event in the Monastir Science Palace on Saturday 15
> September 2012.
> Nizar Kerkeni from Ubuntu Tn, Taher Mestiri from TunAndroid, and Me (from
> the international engineering association "IEEE") started the organization
> of this event. It will be one day (AM for plenary talks and PM for
> workshops). we have already a confirmation of participation of a speaker
> from Google and the participation of some community in Tunisia. The door
> remains open for those we were unable to contact them and want to
> participate.
> The website of the event will be http://sfd.ieee-enis.org/
> A call for participation will be announced soon.
>
>  If no other SFD events will be organized in Tunisia, the Monastir's
> event can be called SFD Tunisia.
>
>  I'm surprised to read that we break the chain. Last year, 29 SFD events
> was organized in Philippines and 2 of them was selected with us as the top
> 3 events. So, why only one event in Tunisia?
> We haven't closed the doors to anyone who wants to help. Last year: Ubuntu
> tn, Mozilla tn, Securinets and others contacted us to participate and to
> help in the organization. They were very welcomed!
>
>  Welcome to all volunteer who want to help really! The success of the
> event will be a success to all volunteers, participants, and speakers.
>
>  Best Regards & Chahia Taiba,
>  Habib.
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Mohamed Habib KAMMOUN
>
> IEEE, GTUG
> Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Gafsa, Faculty of
> Science, Tunisia.
> PhD Student, REGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax,
> National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia.
> URL: http://kammoun.regim.org/
> Tel.: (+216) 98 414 608  -  Fax: (+216) 74 408 894
> Address: Av. Farhat Hached, 13 Rue BellaRigia - 3000 Sfax - Tunisia
>
> IEEE ENIS Student Branch: http://www.ieee-enis.org/
> IEEE GOLD Tunisia: http://sites.ieee.org/tunisia-gold/
> IEEE Sfax Tunisia: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/tunisia/sfax/
> Sfax GTUG: http://sites.google.com/site/sfaxgtug/
> ------------------------------------------
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>
> 2012/8/8 Wassim Derguech <dfsa.derwas at gmail.com>
>
>> Dear SFDTunisia chairs,
>>
>>  SFDTunisia has been organised for 4 years by several contributors from
>> 2006 to 2009!
>>
>>  Why breaking the chain and doing things diffrently?
>>
>>  Why not joining efforts of previous seasons and make all contributors
>> parts of the organisation!
>>
>>  There is a website [1], a mailing list [2], available materials, etc.
>> nothing of these is being reused?
>>
>>  [1] http://sfdtunisia.freehostia.com
>> [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/sfd_tunisia
>>
>>  Best,
>> Wassim
>>
>>  --
>> Derguech Wassim -DERWAS-
>>
>> dfsa.tuxfamily.org
>> www.dfsa.org.tn
>> dfsa.freehostia.com
>> www.sfdtunisia.org
>>
>> GSM: (+353) 879406596 <%28%2B353%29%20879406596>
>>
>
>
>
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> --
> Nizar Kerkeni
> LoCo ubuntu-tn & ubuntu memberhttp://www.ubuntu-tn.orghttp://blog.nizarus.org
>
>

-- 
Derguech Wassim -DERWAS-

dfsa.tuxfamily.org
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www.sfdtunisia.org

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