Introduction

My name is Hope. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time. And Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

My name is Ambition. Ambition: is the desire for personal achievement. It provides the motivation and determination necessary to help give direction to life.

My name is Faith. It's (faith) the flower of light in the field of darkness that's giving me the strength to carry on.

Impossible does not exist in my life. Extra Miles and Extraordinary are my other names

Finally, "A computer is like air conditioning, it becomes useless when you open Windows." - Linus Torvalds

Motto

• All of us are smarter than any one of us.
• I’m determined to achieve my goals so either I succeed or I succeed.
• Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

About Me

amjjawad is the username I use for almost all Linux Communities. My Real Name is Ali and you can call me AJ. I'm 32 years old, have BSc in Computer Science and I simply breathe, drink and eat anything related to IT and/or Technology in general, mainly Linux.

It is ironic that I did't actually start using Linux until October, 2009. Honestly, I didn't use Linux (it was back then Ubuntu 9.10) except for ONE WEEK. I was introduced to Linux by a friend from UK (we used to play together a game on Facebook called My Heroes Ability - thanks to Zynga, the game is dead now) and I have never met that friend, I wish I could, hopefully one day. Then, in 2010 after less than a year, preciously in August 2010, I gave it another thought and started to use Linux. Long story short, since that day until now, I have never stopped using, breathing and contributing to Linux and hope I will never stop no matter what. Simply and honestly, Linux has changed my real life and I do mean it.

After one year, I joined Lubuntu Team and became one of the most active members on that team with so many responsibilities and tasks.

Two years with Lubuntu Team, I have achieved a lot and have done a lot. I have decided to take my contributions to the next level and join more Communities. I have chosen Xubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME.

Areas of Involvement

I have participated and contributed to many areas: Wiki and Documentations, Testing, Communications, Support, Planning and Leading Projects. Please see the full list of the areas I'm involved in.

Ubuntu GNOME Team

The Full History of my involvement, contributions and activities with Ubuntu GNOME Team.

Membership of Ubuntu GNOME

I have officially joined Ubuntu GNOME Team in 22-7-2013. I've accepted the role of QA Lead for Ubuntu GNOME.

My Involvement with Ubuntu GNOME

• QA Lead

• Create a Wiki Area for Ubuntu GNOME as it is a young project and because of the lack of manpower, there was only one main page for Ubuntu GNOME but I'm more than ready to create more and work in progress - See this

• Creator of Ubuntu GNOME One Stop Page

Challenges waiting for me with Ubuntu GNOME

To define my plans or goals, I'd like to list few points here:

1. QA Lead - this is going to be interesting and hard but the harder it gets, the more interesting it becomes and I don't do easy tasks, hard task is my cup of tea.
2. Help to have a Wiki Area
3. Help to build a larger community on the Social Area (Facebook and Google+)
4. Spread the word of Ubuntu GNOME

Lubuntu Team

The Full History of my involvement, contributions and activities with Lubuntu Team.

Membership of Lubuntu Team

I have joined Lubuntu Team in 25-8-2011 and I have resigned in 7-7-2013. Two years, full of achievements and activities. Some of you may not know the fact that I was working with Lubuntu on volunteer basis but FULL TIME. Sometimes, I had to work almost daily from 10 hours - 16 hours. I was almost available online all the time except for the few hours I was sleeping in. Lubuntu was more than just a system. It like my second home. Was in my heart and will forever be.

My Involvement with Lubuntu Team

• Team Leader of Lubuntu Communications Team.

• Team Leader of Lubuntu Support Team.

• Active Member of Lubuntu QA (AKA Testing) Team.

• Active Member of Lubuntu Wiki and Documentation Team.

• Recruiting Members for Lubuntu Team.

• Administrator of Lubuntu Social Networks:

  1. Founder of Lubuntu Google+ Page.

  2. Founder of Lubuntu Official@Twitter.

  3. Founder of Lubuntu YouTube Channel.

  4. Skype account for Lubuntu.

  5. Co-founder of Lubuntu Official Facebook Group.

  6. Very active administrator of Lubuntu Official Facebook Page - The page had less than 4000 Likes when I first join when I left Lubuntu Team, it had 82,300 Likes.

  7. Administrator of Ubuntu QA Facebook Group.

  8. Administrator of Ubuntu QA Facebook Page - still until now.

• Leading some projects - please refer to my projects sections above for more details.

• Proficient in writing HOWTOs - please check this section.

My Projects with Lubuntu Team

After two years with Lubuntu, from being a new beginner user who just started to use Linux for the very first time in his life to a Team Leader in a great and interesting project called Lubuntu; I have gained all the required skills and learned the needed experience to create projects and lead them as well. I've reached to my golden era with Lubuntu because sub-projects within the main project, IMHO, will make the main project stronger and much powerful.

WOW Lubuntu

WOW Lubuntu is a project created by myself to enlighten the whole world with the power of Linux generally and Lubuntu specifically and tell the untold story about a unique system that could breathe a new life into an ancient machine instead of breathing the dust somewhere in the dark.

Lubuntu 101

From WOW Lubuntu, the inspiration to create more projects became stronger. Hence, another projects were born from WOW Lubuntu Lubuntu 101 will focus on 3 types of people/users:

1. Beginners to Lubuntu.
2. Newcomers to Linux, those who never heard about Lubuntu nor tried it yet.
3. Windows Users.

More details about Lubuntu 101 will be here

Start Ubuntu

This is by far, my biggest project and the most important one ever. Start Ubuntu is a huge project and a massive campaign that is aiming to reach to Microsoft Windows XP Users and offering them a modern, unique, stable, fast, powerful, highly customizable, active and amazing community based system, open-source, free Linux System which should replace their very old no longer supported system. Start Ubuntu is simply offering NOT ONLY one replacing for Windows XP, it is offering 8 options, 8 alternatives, 8 Operating Systems. For more details, HERE.

Ubuntu Involvement

Ubuntu Forums

• Member of since 31st of Oct, 2009

Ubuntu Forums Contributions

1. Lubuntu One Stop Thread

2. Lubuntu One Stop Group

3. Lubuntu Installation Guide

4. How To Run Lubuntu From Live CD - A Workaround

5. How To Use GParted

6. How To Install Lubuntu on 4GB USB Drive

7. How To Lock Your Screen in Lubuntu

8. How To Connect 2 PCs via LAN (Wired) using Lubuntu 11.04

9. Dual-Booting Windows & Ubuntu From A-Z

10. How To Avoid Wubi & Install Ubuntu on USB Drive

Ubuntu Beginners Team

• Member of since 27th of October, 2011

Emirates LoCo Team

• Member of Emirates LoCo Team since 18th of January, 2012

Community

Member of Mailing List of all Ubuntu's Flavors

Other Involvement

LXDE

• Administrator of LXDE Forum

Peppermint

Starting from 18-07-2013, I have become the Community Manager in Peppermint Team

Experience, Skills and Activities

1. Very good in Troubleshooting and Support (Installation, Partitioning, Dual-Booting, Multi-Booting, Desktop Environment, Linux Distributions, etc).

2. Proficient in writing Guides/HOWTOs (Ubuntu & Lubuntu).

3. Testing Development Releases (Lubuntu).
4. Very eager to learn each and everything about Linux.
5. Enjoying every bit of it (Helping People, Problem Solving, Documentation, Testing, etc).

Challenges and Fun

• Breathing Lubuntu on a very old machine - See this

• An Example of the great support I have done at Ubuntu Forums - Please, See This

Summary of my Roles/Positions