About Me

My name is Ahmed Toulan. I live in Cairo Egypt. I started out as a cross platform C/C++ developer, and that got me hooked with Qt. Currently I am working as a web developer using Python and Django. I started using Redhat in year 2001, then decided to be more hardcore so I switched to Slackware. After having all the fun that I can get and deciding to do some real work Ubuntu was my distro of choice. I am an active member of the Ubuntu-EG LoCo team.

My Contact Info

• Launchpad:	http://launchpad.net/~thelinuxer
  Email:	<thelinuxer AT gmail DOT com>
  IRC:	thelinuxer on irc.freenode.net
  Blog:	http://www.thelinuxer.net
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Involvement

Community

• Co-organized Linux summer training for Engineering student @ Cairo University.

  Created the team website.

  Co-organizer of the Lucid Lynx Cairo Release party.

  • My main role was to coordinate between different team members.
  • I gave a session about desktop programming using Qt in the event.

  Gave a session about desktop programming using Qt in an EGLUG event.

  Member of Egypt LoCo Launchpad team.

  Member of Launchpad Beta Testers

  Member of Ubuntu Marketing Team

  Senior Member of (Egypt GNU/Linux User Group).

  Active in #ubuntu-eg IRC channel.

  Translation of several Open Source applications on launchpad to Arabic.

  Testing of several Open Source applications included in Ubuntu.

Goals for 2010

• Organize free training sessions for students to teach them to use Ubuntu.

  Persuade people to use Ubuntu.

  Help Egypt LoCo Team to grow in both technical ability and size.

  Getting our team Ubuntu-EG approved.

  Provide help and support to new users.

  Become an Ubuntu Member.

Testimonials

Please place your testimonials below ending with your Ubuntu.com wiki page, or LaunchPad page if you have one. If you've neither, just leave your name and nickname. Thanks!

• Ahmed is a very enthusiastic person, he is enthusiastic about making a contribution to the community, he is also a very good leader since he meets the requirements of a true team leader, in his way of talking & decision making. i. I recommend him for Ubuntu membership. -- Omar Mohsen (Wiki), LoCo colleague & friend.

• It is a pleasure for me to write this testimonial for Ahmed Toulan he is a talented and a fantastic individual, he is an excellent leader to Ubuntu-eg he helped the team to begin a new era and his contribution has helped the team to begin a higher level of contribution to the Ubuntu Community, he has shown us that we can achieve more goals with the ubuntu-eg loco team and that he is profoundly dedicated and responsible , on behalf of the whole team we highly wants to see him as the first Ubuntu Member from Egypt. Mohamed Zaian

• Ahmed is a very very good coordinator for Ubuntu-eg. He help the team to wake-up and be an active team, Help us to contribute with the community in Egypt and specially university students. He is an Ubuntu deprecated person. Jonathan N. Hindi . Email, Launchpad.

• Ahmed is credited with the recent revival of Ubuntu-eg after about 3 years of slumber. The LoCo team is still young, but thanks to his efforts we have succeeded in organizing a number of events including a FOSS-awareness day and an Ubuntu educational course that is currently running now in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He also succeeded in attracting new members to the LoCo team. Mohammed Gamal

• Ahmed has a very good vision and goals to develop the LoCo team, he is a very active man he giving sessions, helping people, Spreading the spirit of open source software, volunteering by printing T-shirts, burning Cd's and a lot more .... beside that he is a good leader and organizer. He always makes the team moving in the right direction according to it's goals. I am one of those who joined the team due to Ahmed's sessions Islam Al-Wazery