Mohammed Sameer Moustafa __________________________________________________________________ Helsinki, Finland. E-Mail: [1]msameer@foolab.org __________________________________________________________________ Work Experience: Localization Engineer ([2]Nokia Multimedia "OSSO" - Helsinki) February 2007 - present Software Developer/Open Source liaison ([3]OpenCraft) November 2005 - February 2007 * Implementing websites and online/intranet portals using [4]Drupal. * Customizing various Open Source software applications to fit the needs of the company clients. R&D Specialist ([5]IT Synergy) December 2004 - September 2005 * Localization of the company GNU/Linux based Multihead solution. * Updating the Multihead solution to a recent version of Mandrake. * Modifications for phprojekt to comply with our clients' requirements * Maintenance of the company web and mail servers * Various software required internally by the company GNU/Linux System Administrator ([6]ZADSolutions) September 2003 - October 2004 * Linux system administrator, Management and administration of the various company servers, Among them is [7]amrkhaled.net, [8]moezmasoud.com and other small sites. * Administration of apache, MySQL, postfix and courier MTA for virtual hosts. * Maintenance of the GNU/Linux intranet server "firewall, file and print shares". * Maintenance of the internal network. * Help desk and support for the php developers. AZA-Group ([9]AZA-Group) * Linux server deployment for AHED: File, print and connection sharing, Firewall, Mail, Proxy & Centralized backup. * Branch sales information aggregation system. * Development of a network marketing management system. * Database design for a resource index and work group discussion forum for NGO-CRC. __________________________________________________________________ Technical Skills: Operating Systems: * Very good knowledge about GNU/Linux "Red Hat, Mandrake, GNU/Debian". * Basic knowledge about Microsoft Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 9x, Windows 2000. Programming: * C * C++ * Perl * SQL * Php * HTML/CSS * UNIX Shell * Fair knowledge about GNU/Linux internals, system calls, pipes, ... * Javascript "basic knowledge" * Python "basic knowledge" * Good experience with developing GUI applications using [10]Gtk and [11]Gtkmm Miscellaneous: * Currently in the Debian [12]New Maintainer process. * Emacs * [13]Drupal including writing modules and customization. * Cross platform applications development using C/Gtk GNU/Linux Services: * Apache * DHCP * Courier MTA "Including virtual hosts configuration" * Cyrus IMAP "Including virtual hosts configuration and IMAP encryption" * Postfix "Including virtual hosts configuration and SMTP encryption" * CVS * Samba "Windows file and print sharing" * Iptables * MySQL * PAM * Basic LDAP knowledge "centralized authentication" * Basic knowledge about Asterisk PBX __________________________________________________________________ Volunteer work: Arabeyes core member: May 2005 - November 2005 Managing (through Core Management Team) the first Arabic Open Source community largely responsible for the Arabization of UNIX environments. * Katoob, A Unicode enabled text editor tailored to suite the needs of the Arabic user * Arabbix maintainer, Arabbix is the Arabeyes show case live CD. * January 2005: Participation in [14]Asia source I as one of the localization track facilitators. * January 2006: Participation in [15]Africa source II as one of the NGO migration track facilitators. EGLUG Co-Founder and Administrator: May 2004 - April 2006 [16]EGLUG the Egyptian GNU/Linux user group aims to promote FLOSS and GNU/Linux in Egypt. * Participation in various events to spread GNU/Linux in Egypt. * Helped giving a GNU/Linux course for the Menia university TAs. * A [17]presentation about the state of Arabic support and the free desktop as part of the [18]MENGOS conference. * Gave a session on [19]effective bug reporting for the EGLUG members. * Helped [20]MENGOS installing a GNU/Linux lab. * Helped setting up the GNU/Linux lab at the culture wheel for the use in various activities including EGLUG ones. * Participating in a GNU/Linux crash course for a [21]new NGO. * Co-organizer and volunteer for the 2nd install fest in the Sawy cultural center, The 10th of September, 2005. Linux-Egypt Forum X-Moderator: [22]Linux-Egypt was the first Linux community in Egypt. * Participation in various events to spread GNU/Linux in Egypt. * The first Linux-Egypt Install fest "Al sawy culture wheel", Saturday, 1st of May, 2004. __________________________________________________________________ Projects: * Katoob, A Unicode enabled text editor tailored to suite the needs of the Arabic user * libarabic, A collection of some functions that might be useful when developing Arabic aware applications. * [23]Baghdad, An Arabic spell checker based on Tim Buckwalter's [24]Arabic morphological analyzer. * Was Arabbix maintainer, Arabbix is the Arabeyes show case live CD. * Some contributions to [25]phaeronix a live CD by one of the EGLUG members. * Development of a standard X-Window system tray component for the PekWM desktop environment. * Contributions for some Open source projects: X chat, Gtksourceview, GnomeICU, lineakd, hpanel. * Small code fragments and scripts in my [26]CVS. __________________________________________________________________ Talks, Presentations and Conferences: * January 28th - February 4th 2005: Participation in [27]Asia source I as one of the localization track facilitators. * March 14th 2005: A [28]presentation about the state of Arabic support and the free desktop as part of the [29]MENGOS conference. * July 26th and 27th 2005: Gave two presentations during the [30]2nd OSS conference in Jordan organized by [31]INT@J: [32]OS Developer's Perspective: An Open Source Toolkit and [33]The Status of Localization/Arabization of Linux and Open Source Software * January 8th 2006 - Jan 15th 2006: Participation in [34]Africa source II as one of the NGO migration track facilitators. * July 12th 2006 - July 16th 2006: Trainee, [35]North African Regional Wireless Training Workshop, Morocco organized by [36]APC __________________________________________________________________ Personal: * Nationality: Egyptian. * Age: 27 * Date Of Birth: 29/3/1981 * Place Of Birth: Cairo, Egypt * Marital state: Single. * Education: Faculty of pharmacy, Cairo university. * Interests: I usually spend my free time reading, Trying to learn new technologies and increasing my knowledge about GNU/Linux, Maintain my website www.foolab.org, and trying to spread GNU/Linux by joining various EGLUG activities, Maintain my own software projects and/or trying to fix bugs in other software applications, specially related to Arabic as well as participating in volunteer work. __________________________________________________________________ Last modified: 22nd of April 2008. 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