michaelgodawski
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<michal DOT godawski AT yahoo DOT com> I am 23 years old. I come from Poland, Cracow. Now I live in Duesseldorf, Germany. I am studying history of art and sociology.
My first contact with Linux was some years ago with Linux Red Hat. But first I had to get to know Ubuntu to be all for it.
I am using Ubuntu since the 7.04 release. I am in the Beginner Team since the 7.10 release. If I learn something new I always try to pour this new gained knowledge into a tutorial or essay. I spent regular hours on the Ubuntu forums helping out new users. With the Education Focus Group I create useful resources for new and old Ubuntu users an hold courses on the irc channel ubuntu-classroom.
Recently I launched my new website, where I document the most interesting solution from my work on the Absolute Beginner Talk.
Because when there is a clear shape, the spirit can become clear too.
Current Level of Involvement
Member of
Member of the
Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Member of the
Beginners Team Answers
Member of the
Ubuntu Forums Beginners Education Focus Group
Member of the
Member of the
Unanswered Post Team Member of the
BugsSquad
Launchpad
Become an Ubuntero
Translation suggestions into Polish
edubuntu-docs Translation suggestions into Polish
xfce4-dict-plugin Translation suggestions into Polish
system-config-cluster Translation suggestion into Polish
desktop-kiosktool Translation into Polish
Phatch
IRC
- Active in the Education Focus Group - writing essays and doing research.
Organizing irc education course for #ubuntu-classroom :
IRC Question and Answer Session, Introduction to Root and Sudo
Sticky Threads, Nano-Basics, Meta-Packages
Wiki
Pages on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ created by me: 
Sticky Threads
Ubuntuforums.org
General Assistance in the Absolute Beginner Talk Forum
Gparted, fdisk, mke2fs... Java problems Reconfiguring broken display Medibuntu Keyring
Special Projects - Today and Tomorrow
Ubuntu Resources My Ubuntu Resources Site
Today
started a new Launchpad and Ubuntuforums account; had to do a rather long break but now I am active again; was known as jan quark, now I use my real name.
Tomorrow
- planning to get involved into the translation ( speaking German and Polish fluently )
continue to edit the beginners section of the wiki "Beginners Section"
- creating more and better educational courses
packaging, a little bit of MOTU, who knows
Testimonials
Joeb454
I've always found Michael.Godawski (Janquark) to be very helpful, whether it be on the IRC channel's, or on the forums. And after reading his tutorials/How-To's I'll certainly start linking to them when appropriate on the Ubuntu Forums.
LeAstrale
When i first started using linux i had a bunch of different problems regarding media playback, graphics cards and some bad propitary hardware in my machine which would not work together with my Ubuntu 7.04.. i took a break from the linux world for a while and thought at the release of 7.10 that i would give it a try and together with Michael.Godawski (janquark) i got everything working including the media playback which i had some issues on. I don't think that i would have been using linux as of today if it wasn't for Michael.Godawski (janquark) who helped me a lot in the beginning.
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