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I am a high-school student greatly interested in Ubuntu and its development. I am an Indian national, yet I live in Saudi Arabia. Began programming at the age of 9 and gave up gaming at that age as well. Right now, I am 14 years old. Began Ubuntu development work 8 months ago, with packaging learning. I am a high-school student greatly interested in Ubuntu and its development. I live in Saudi Arabia and I am 14 years old. I know C/C++, Python, PHP, Shell Script, VB, and some C# . I aim to become a ZCE (Zend Certified Engineer) for PHP one day.
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I began using Ubuntu in late 2007, with Gutsy. Have tried Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid and Maverick. I first heard about Ubuntu in early 2007 in a PC World magazine. Installed it when my cousin brother suggested "It will be good for you and your slow computer". I was surprised to see so cool desktop effects on my slow Pentium 4 computer. Got interested in Ubuntu development. Began translating, then bug reporting, then bug fixing (now from the last 8 months)!. I have used Ubuntu since late 2007, with the first version I touched being Gutsy. Have used all versions since then, and have been testing maverick since alpha 2. I got involved with Ubuntu development around 8 months ago.

I, Bilal Akhtar, apply for MOTU.

Name

Bilal Akhtar

Launchpad Page

bilalakhtar

Wiki Page

BilalAkhtar

Who I am

I am a high-school student greatly interested in Ubuntu and its development. I live in Saudi Arabia and I am 14 years old. I know C/C++, Python, PHP, Shell Script, VB, and some C# . I aim to become a ZCE (Zend Certified Engineer) for PHP one day.

My Ubuntu story

I have used Ubuntu since late 2007, with the first version I touched being Gutsy. Have used all versions since then, and have been testing maverick since alpha 2. I got involved with Ubuntu development around 8 months ago.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

I have done the following merges:

Syncs:

Bug fixes:

New packages:

Package upgrades:

Bug fixes still waiting in sponsor queue:

Apart from Ubuntu, I am the upstream developer of GNOME Media Player and qstream.

Areas of work

I have worked on Universe and desktop packages. I have also fixed 14 papercuts in the maverick release itself.

Plans for the future

General

I would work on SRUs, merge/sync more and more packages from Debian and help fix papercuts.

What I like least in Ubuntu

REVU seems to be an abandoned corner of Ubuntu development. Its very difficult to find people to review packages there. I would review many packages in REVU once I become MOTU.

Comments

If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.

Endorsements

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.

TEMPLATE

== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== General feedback ===
## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?)

=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.''
=== Areas of Improvement ===

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