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Algeria
I was educated in Algeria up to high school. I received a government grant to study in the UK as part of a programme to encourage high school graduates. I studied for an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. I am currently preparing for a PhD in Formal Methods, influenced by theoretical computer science and logic. The subject is Evolvable Systems.
Besides studies, I work within the localisation community to standardise Arabic translation, fix RTL/Arabic issues in Open Source Software and localise GNOME to Arabic (with great progress).
GNOME localisation (http://wiki.arabeyes.org/GNOME - http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/ar).
The technical computing dictionary (http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Technical_Dictionary) : wiki'fied discussion of terms often found in computer user interfaces.
Arabic OpenCD (http://arabicopencd.org): A collection of localised and non localised open source applications.
Minbar (http://djihed.com/minbar): GNOME prayer application.
عصام حمود.. درست الفنون الجميلة واختصاص الاتصال البصري .. أوقفت دراستي في قسم علم الاجتماع تخصص ديموغرافيا لأبحث في الوقت الحالي عن إمكانية مواصلة الدراسة بتخصص أكبر في مجال اهتمامي.
كاتب ومصمم ورسام عملت في العديد من المجلات الثقافية وإدارة المواقع وتصميمها.. من بين من تعاملت معهم مجموعة الشهاب للإعلام والمؤسسة الأوراسية للعلوم والقنون والثقافة.
إهتماماتي:
الإتصال البصري، أفكار وفلسفة التصميم، تطوير الجانب الفني للمشاريع الثقافية، الإخراج الفني للمجلات والجرائد، الكاريكاتير، الكتابة العربية، التدوين، أفكار التصميم للمواقع العربية.. دراسة الجانب الفني للحضارات.. وبالطبع التيبوغرافيا العربية.
يمكنك الإطلاع على بعض أعمالي في معرضي على موقع ديفيان آرت. http://hamoud.deviantart.com
أما اهتمامي الحالي الفعلي فهو حول التكوين العام للهوية البصرية للمشاريع الثقافية ومشاريع الويب الجديدة.. بمعنى أنني مهتم ببناء الهوية البصرية - والتي من ضمنها التصميم - للمشروع وكيف يمكنها خدمة المشروع من البداية بإعطاء أكبر قدر من الاحترفية ومن الاستثنائية البصرية التي تميزه عن بقية المشاريع. ربما مدونة “شعارات” هي بدايتي الأولى لمثل هذه الأفكار حيث أكتب فيها مواضيع تخص الشعارات فقط. http://tadwen.net/logo
خارج مجال تصميم:
صاحب مدونة حمود ستوديو.. أدون فيها منذ أربع سنوات.. أصدرت من خلالها كتابي الأول بعنوان “عامين اثنين” من التجارب الأولى في الوطن العربي في اصدار المدونين لكتبهم الخاصة. http://www.hamoudstudio.com http://www.hamoudart.com/ar
مشاريع: موقع الشيخ محمد الغزالي. الإذاعةا لالكترونية الجزائرية
أعمل مدربا على الكمبيوتر، مهندس في المعلوماتية وماجستير، أعمل حاليا على تحضير شهادة الدكتوراة أعمل على مواصفة الدعم الحاسوبي للقرآن الكريم مهتم بمعالجة اللغة العربية
مشروع المدقق الإملائي، أيسبل مشروع تصريف الأفعال.
Bahrain
the creator and editor of BahrainOnline.org and BahrainPortal.org, one of the first arab who blog in Arabic language(http://abdulemam.blogspot.com), BahrainOnline created since 10 years, when Bahrain was under the security situation and people demands for reform and asking for returning back to the constitution, after the reform been start when the new king in Bahrain come, BahrainOnline toke huge place as the first electronic news source for all Bahraini and its continue to growing up. In Feb 2005 Ali with two of his friends been arrested for 2 weeks and the charge was insulting the king, with the pressure of NGOs , Media and demonstrations , Ali and his friends been released but the changes still not dropped , BahrainOnline is still running but its always block in Bahrain since 2002 but still its getting more than 100000 hit per day, attends many workshop and conference with IREX and FronLine and WAN-Press. Working as computer engineer , Working in the new project (bahrainPortal.org) to be the first Electronic News paper in Bahrain.
...is a policy analyst for a global thinktank and has worked on a project looking at the future of networks and the internet. Also has a personal interest in new media, digital activism and virtual networks.
Leaded Qurannet Development Team (QDT). Developed enhanced security technique for PHP\MySQL Earth Given (it has been protecting many PHP sites)
Leaded the Live Broadcasting Center (LBC) , this project was a leading project in the region and considered the first successful online broadcasting service. It was then enhanced to include broadcasting activities in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman. The broadcasting service had been blocked by the Bahraini authorities
The blockage has been removed due to public demonstration and protesting.
Built Qurannet online CMS that helped initialize the websites for many NGO’s in Bahrain e.g. Bapco Trade Union, Bahrain Center for Human Rights and others. Participated in pushing the IT awareness by giving IT relates lectures and workshops. Providing IT support and advisory for many local Bahraini websites administrators and bloggers. I was arrested for two weeks due to my online activism.
- Data Security & Encryption with PGP
- Bahrain Live Broadcasting Center: Live Events from Bahrain, SA, Oman, Kuwait and UAE.
- VOIP & PABX : Asterisk, TrixBox and Atcom.
- Disaster Recovery and High availability of data for NGO's.
Egypt
Abdelrahman works as a software developer. mainly developing web applications using Drupal serving lots of purposes from online communities and web 2.0ish sites to business related applications trying to give corporate fat cats a healthy IT diet.
A bit of a free software fanatic so don't panic if he lashes at you for saying that Open Source === Free Software. Loves to go out, party, have fu.... okay those are lies. He's always in front of his computer either blogging, reading, or secretly plotting an evil plan to move someone to free software.
تخرجت من كلية الهندسة بالاسكندرية قسم اتصالات والكترونيات. ثم غيرت اتجاهى لاحقا لأعمل كمدير نظام لأنظمة لينوكس فى شركة [eSpace|http://www.espace.com.eg/].
بدأ تحولى لأنظمة البرمجيات الحرة بضعة سنوات قبل تحولى من الناحية العمل الى تكنولوجيا المعلومات..
communications engineer that changed his career to be a linux admin after joining eglug (Egypt Gnu/Linux User Group), untill I became a senior then recently an admin in it. Started the open source initiative in alexandria where I live. Had a limited political experience but now i'm focusing in open source issues.
From his work with children on using facebook to ridicule their teachers in the arab digital expression camps, to his work with pro democracy activists on using blogs to mobilize thousands of Egyptians against their government in the Kefaya movement, Alaa just loves helping people use ICTs to stick it to the man.
By day he works as a Free/Open Source Software developer, by night he dons his mask and cape and patrols the streets of cairo, jumping from campaign to campaign building websites, providing support and training, looking out for activists in need. He likes to pretend that his work on the Egyptian Blogs Aggregator helped bring in a new era of citizen journalism and usher in a new generation of digital activists, while the rest of the world acts as if his blog is relevant.
Amr is a software developer with personal and professional focus on free/open source software and a passion for the web. He is a frequent contributer to the Drupal project, his favorite content publishing platform. Until recently Amr was leading the software development team at IT Synergy. As a freelance, he is using his increased free time to get more involved in the communities and FLOSS projects he had always believed in.
A FOSS enthusiast who happen to love Arabic, I love every aspect of it; the language, the script even the writing direction. As a failed self-studying calligrapher who discovered computers much later, I thought I'd be able to convince computers to help me, and still trying.
Laila Shereen Sakr's work critically examines the nature of digital information and cyber existence in a post-9/11 world. She is primarily concerned with digital compositions, particularly in Arabic. Her current projects include R-Shief, an Arabic-English web-based resource that provides archives and information mappings that illustrate how the Middle East appears online; and Call 2 Presence, an interactive, live cinema narrative about an animated cyborg who is also an Arabic-speaking mother. Previously, she has co-founded media and art collectives in Washington, DC. Shereen Sakr was awarded the 2009 Jack Shaheen Media Scholarship by the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC). Her work has been exhibited and performed in international festivals, galleries, and museums–including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Santa Cruz Museum. Presently, she is lecturer and research associate in the Digital Arts and New Media program at UC Santa Cruz. Shereen Sakr has recently been awarded an Annenberg Fellowship at USC's School for Cinematic Arts towards a PhD in Media Arts and Practice, which she will begin in Fall 2010.
for latest info -- http://lailashereen.com
R-Shief PROTOTYPE -- http://r-shief.org
VJ Um Amel -- http://lailashereen.com/call2presence/call2p.php
Lina received a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication and pursued a career in print and radio journalism, whereby she extensively covered political and economic issues in the Middle East for different media outlets, including the Daily Star, Cairo Times and Reuters News Agency. Through her position with the BBC World Service Trust in Darfur, Sudan as information coordinator and radio producer, she focused on the use of media in general and audio production in particular as a means of spreading knowledge and changing attitudes. She is currently working on two forthcoming publications on the modern history of Egypt through the lens of a 100-year old coffeehouse and the social landscape of South Sinai.
A FOSS enthusiast, her main interest is adapting and delivering technology to non techies, and training them in making it their own. She co-founded the Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group (EGLUG) in 2004, and has extensive experience in working with NGOs, human rights activists, and children on web technologies and new media. She won the Best of Blogs (BOBs) and Reporters without Borders award together with her husband in 2005.
-Egyptian Blogs Aggregator http://omraneya.net
- Arab Digital Expression camps Summer camps for teenagers where they learn how to express themselves with Digital Music, Digital Video, Computer Graphics, Web Design, etc. http://www.arabdigitalexpression.com campers portal: http://www.arabdigitalexpression.net
-Katib.org A Drupal based blogging platform for Arab human rights defenders and independent journalists. http://www.katib.org
-Egyptian GNU/Linux users Group (EGLUG) http://www.eglug.org
-Take Back The Tech Reclaiming ICTs to end violence against women http://takebackthetech.net
-Arabization projects: Drupal Security NGO in a box
I am a software engineer working in citex software company, and before was working in www.20at.com, I am an open source believer who thinks Open Source Concepts are a very fertile field to evolve a revolutionary solution for our nation to become really a 'NATION'! so I am concerned in every thin related the process of developing a complete and full legal, cultural, economical, political, religious, social and -of course- technical model for the open source in Islamic and Arabic countries..
www.20at.com (previously) and now working on building and integrating a drupal-based portal
I graduated from Computer Science department, Alexandria university. I have been in programming since 2003. I work as a software developer at eSpace, also I'm doing my Masters in Bio-informatics only because I love it alot.. :). I used to be a member in a number of social organization. I'm mainly interested in full text search optimizations specially in Arabic, semantic search, web servers scalability, database optimizations and queuing solutions.
I really believe in the effect of communities on arising the public and professional awareness, that's what I'm trying to do here...
Raramorph(Ruby Arabic Morphological Analyzer)
Community Engine(Ruby on Rails Social Networking platform, I added postgreSQL and the arabic support)
System VIPC(Adding Ruby 1.9 support for the famous systemV Inter process communication C library)
Associate Professor of Economics & Director of Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at AUC, Egypt
Author of Access to Knowledge in Egypt book
Egyptian blogger and journalist. Fond of making videos and taking photos. Recently won Human Rights First award for using new media tools in promoting human rights.
A 5min video on Sudanese refugee shot dead on Sinai border with Israel. A topic ignored by local HR organisations and covered up by Egyptian authorities. Introducing video-journalism to main-stream-media. www.vimeo.com/almasryalyoum
Software developer. Currently working as system administrator at espace, an egyptian software company located in Alexandria.
Ruby open source library: Neverblock
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