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

About Me

amjjawad is my username on Linux Community (Lubuntu, LXDE and Ubuntu). My Real Name is Ali and you can call me AJ. I'm 31 years old, have BSc in Computer Science and I simply breath, drink and eat anything related to IT and/or Technology in general. 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 a 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 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. One day, I had to make a very tough and hard decision. With great pain and sadness, I had to resign and leave the team, looking for new challenge. Life must go on and no matter what, Lubuntu will forever be in my heart.

Lubuntu Team

In this section, I will explain in details my involvement 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

• Founder of Lubuntu Brainstorming 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 (Lubuntu Official Facebook Page, Lubuntu Official Facebook Group, Ubuntu QA Facebook Group, Lubuntu Google+ Page, Twitter, YouTube and Skype)

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

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

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

Testimonials

Feel FREE to write your feedback or testimonial about me