StartUbuntu

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Welcome

Hello and Welcome to the Wiki Page of Start Uubuntu Project Big Grin :) Thank you for your interest. Your help, support and contribution is highly appreciated.

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What

Brought to you by WOW Lubuntu starting from 8th of April 2013, Start Lubuntu (created by amjjawad) is a huge project and a massive campaign that is aiming to reach to Microsoft Windows XP Users and offering them a unique lightweight, stable, fast, powerful, modern, customizable, active and amazing community based system, open-source, free Linux System which should replace their very old no longer supported system.

Why

Microsoft Windows will stop supporting Windows XP on 8th of April 2014 - for more details, please read this article.

Microsoft is offering two options to Windows XP Users (Small to Medium Business):

  • If your current PC meets the system requirements for Windows 7 or Windows 8, you can buy Windows 7 Professional or Windows 8 Pro from a local retailer or Microsoft Certified Partner.
  • If your PC does not meet system requirements, consider purchasing a new business PC with Windows 8 Pro.

Start Lubuntu Project is simply introducing Lubuntu to XP Users Smile :)

How

No doubt this is a huge project and definitely won't be easy to achieve its goal, it will require lots of efforts, time, energy, strong well, dedication and commitment. However, impossible does not exist in our dictionary and therefore, we can surely achieve our goal and make this yet another successful mission for Lubuntu.

This project requires a Master Plan.

Master Plan

To make life easier, this project will have different phases Smile :)

Phase 0

Set a solid plan, set priorities, define our goals, explain what Start Lubuntu is all about, highlight the important points, etc. All this will be done on this page and once this page is fully written and done, Phase 0 will be accomplished successfully.

Phase 1

Build a Team. This is not going to be a one-man-job, this is going to be a massive community job Smile :)

Phase 2

Once recruiting a team is done, this team needs to communicate and discuss all about this project. This shall be done on the mailing list of Lubuntu Communication Team:

  • a- Join Lubuntu Communications Team

    b- Start your email with [Start Lubuntu] tag or [WOW Lubuntu] tag

    c- If you have accounts on Facebook and/or Google+, please join us on WOW Lubuntu Social Network Pages. If necessary, we can also create a new individual page for Start Lubuntu Project

    d - We can use IRC for Live Chat too

Communications Channels are very important to make this a successful project.

Phase 3

Before we start anything, we must prepare something for the Windows XP Users in order to make life easier for them. Some or most if not all of them may never heard about Linux. We need to explain to them what is Linux? we need to explain to them that Linux is not Windows.

For that, we need our own version of some kind of comparison between Lubuntu and Windows XP.

amjjawad will take care of writing that but your contribution is very much welcome Smile :)

If truth to be told, our secret weapon will be Lubuntu 14.04. As per The Head of Lubuntu Developer, the plan is to make 14.04 an LTS Release. If that will become reality, this is a huge success itself. A great move and push for this project. We must and should do our best to make 14.04 THE RELEASE of LUBUNTU

Phase 4

The actual action will start from this Phase. However, we are not yet ready to approach the users directly, there is a pre-step to that. In this Phase, we must approach as many projects, communities, organizations, etc as possible. The more people know about this, the better. Using the Media is very important. Our voices must reach to the whole world. In order to achieve that, we must approach first some communities, etc.

Some of the suggestions was to approach Linux Foundation. Of course, there are many more which will be listed here later on Smile :)

Phase 5

After completing the previous four (4) Phases successfully, it is time to reach to Windows XP Users. If Phase 4 made a great success, other parties will play a great role to help us.

Phase 6

The Second goal/aim of this project is to make the world a better place with Linux. Enlighten the world with Linux. People need to see the light eventually and these days, I've seen and heard that some companies are converting from Windows to Linux and go full Linux and this is a reality, not from our imagination Smile :)

Having that said, and since Lubuntu is part of the Ubuntu Family and Ubuntu is a Linux Distribution, our mission might not be limited to spread the word of Lubuntu, but also Linux in general Wink ;)

Phase 7

To be discussed later

Team Members

Members of this project will be named: Lubuntu Ambassadors Big Grin :)

To be become a member, please, sign up with your Wiki Page or Launchpad ID here Smile :)

If you don't know how to make a Wiki Page, please see this guide Wink ;)

Lubuntu Ambassadors

amjjawad

The Creator of Start Lubuntu Project and Team Leader at Lubuntu Team

sudodus

Member of Lubuntu QA Team and Active Ubutnu Forum Member

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