## About Uruk

Uruk is a free, collaborative and participatory project containing free software and sub-projects (as in the definition of free software) started as an individual initiative, that developed at leisure, with the goal of establishing an official project when the infrastructure is completed.
The Uruk name was chosen in honor of Uruk (Warka) city in Iraq (Read More)
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The logo is a symbol of the Sumerian Palm with nine fronds, surrounded by Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Our Project Goal is to:

- Establish and maintain free projects to support the free software community.
- Develop a free GNU/Linux distribution to meet the users' needs.
- Support the less common languages for the free software community.
- Spread the free software philosophy in places where such philosophy is weak.

## Projects

The following list contains the sub-projects of our team.

Uruk GNU/Linux | Uruk GNU/Linux is a fully free operating system for home users, small enterprises and educational centers based on Trisquel.
Uruk Cleaner | Uruk Cleaner is a program that you can use to clean your system from cache files and logs.
UPMS | UPMS(Uruk Package Managers Simulator). This program can simulate several common package managers commands, which means you can install, uninstall, update and remove the packages using any package manager you prefer to get the work done with.
Uruk Ocr Server | A Simple, small, powerful OCR web server used to convert images to text.
Irc log recorder | The Irc log recorder is an irc bot that logs the entire communication of an irc channel. It is equipped with a web server to enable users to access the logs from a web browser and/or telnet .
Masalla Icon Theme | Icon theme for *NIX OS inspired by the modern flat design trend. .
UrukCloudIDE | The UrukCloudIDE Project is a free as in freedom cross platform integrated development environment running primarily, but not exclusively, on the free and open source cloud software Â«OpenStack Â». This piece of software is highly recommended for institutions, software development companies and developers. The project is still in beta.
Uruk Project website | The source code for the Uruk project and the Uruk GNU/Linux website, based on the Peers website source code

## Contact

You can reach us via one of the following methods:

- #### Join our mailing list. To subscribe to the list, just send a mail to uruk-request@lists.tuxfamily.org â€” with the subject field: "subscribe". A mail will be sent back to confirm the request. To unsubscribe follow the same procedure, but with the subject field "unsubscribe". And to remain faithful to our GNUisance status, confirmation is needed in this case too. To Post in the mailing list send your message to uruk@lists.tuxfamily.org

- Chat with us on `irc.freenode.net` in our channel `#uruk-project`
- OR contact the main project managers by mail:
  - Ali Abdulghani(Ali Miracle) blade.vp2020@gmail.com
  - Hayder Majid(Hayder Ctee) hayder@riseup.net

## How To Contribute

If you want to contribute, read this first:

- All of our contributions respect software freedom.
- Non-free software may slip into our system, despite all of our efforts. We will be vigilant, and we will remove non-free software as soon as we find it
- We demand there to be respect among community members.
- Do not discriminate against people based on age, gender, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, ideology, ideas, social class, nationality, race, intelligence, or any analogous grounds.
- Do not curse or use harsh language here. Social norms differ from place to place; harsh language can deter people from our community.
- Do not insult others here. Disagree and challenge ideas instead.

If you have read and agreed on the above points , and would like to help us, then the next question is: what would you like to do?
You can help the Uruk project in many ways; we need people to write documentation, such as books, reference guides and online info; we also need people to write software, do research, and many other tasks. Because of all the different tasks at hand, we are confident that your particular skills can help the Uruk Project; you don't have to be an experienced software developer to help us. What skills and experience do you have? Do you have experience writing large and complex technical documents? Do you speak several human languages? Do you have a unique skill? Are you a Unix hacker, or are you still learning? Obviously, the answers to these questions will determine the sorts of jobs that you may want to attempt to do. For example, if you've never written any documentation then you probably don't want to attempt to write a C++ STL tutorial or reference. If you have little mathematical expertise then you probably won't want to work on a statistical analysis package.
If you find any issue,you can report it on the Uruk Issue Tracker