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My name is S. M. Pavel Sayekat and I am an Ubuntu Linux user since 2008. I tried Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron as one of my senior alumnus gifted the CD to me, and instantly I fall in love with Ubuntu for the themes and colour profile and the freedom to use the OS unlike other proprietary OS and for lovely & funny package naming and even the coding comments are interesting. After setting-up I configured the wvdial on my own to use net through cellular phone as Internet was not easily available except through Telcos in those times in Bangladesh and then for 2.5g modems using usb-modswitch with specific code for each modems. I tried many Linux and Ubuntu flavours and every release of Ubuntu before Ubuntu 10.04 because after that I started using "LTS only" to be a little more stable. Few days ago, I just fixed one of my cousin's machine (Ubuntu) over the phone, being 500 Km away by helping him in grub environment, live booting an ISO which was located in a partition as he cannot make a bootable pendrive without any working system and then fixing the broken grub. Beside that I am active in launchpad.

Till now The Ubuntu Community on IRC is proving very handy for me and I specially like to mention some names like Svetlana Belkin as she gave me a headstart othewise I have no idea where I would end up, inetpro with Kilos for doing some basic fixes on me including my attitude :p, theblazehen for being awesomely helpful technically, chesedo, wxl for guiding me on system troubleshooting , teward for guiding me a little with where to find what, of course with the help of his coffee, maktrix for his advices on doing translations (oops! on Telegram.), tsimonq2 for that I copied some of his contexts and still following :p, Unit193 being in the Xubuntu team, bashing-om helping me fixing an issue in system cloning and for hanging out with me on IRC, flocculant for guiding me on Bug Reporting, kryten mmmmm, the person mentioned last, helps me without even being asked, can you guys beleive it?

P.S. Person's name primarilly refers to her/ his IRC Nicks.

Contributions

My efforts were actually offline efforts, like when I help someone fixing windows, I setup the machine to dualboot Ubuntu by convincing them whenever I can. I setup my cousins's and sister's machine likewise and my sister mostly uses Ubuntu. Recently I was active in SANE project trying to add support for my Canon LiDE 120 scanner, thanks to Stephane Voltz and Rolf Bensh from SANE, specially Mr. Voltz did all the hardworks.

My graduate project work: I was in a project group working on Asymptotic Method of Krylov-Bogoliubov-Mitropolskii to solve Fifth Order More Critically Damped Systems. I used C with GCC in Ubuntu to test the perturbation method and to analyze the results in comparison to Runge-Kutta method.

* Ubuntu-Bengali-translation - started a project to help and accelerate Bengali translations for Ubuntu.

* I tried to help in 16.04 LTS release with Xubuntu exploratory testing, not sure how much I really succeeded.

* I am an active member of Ubuntu Bangladesh team

* Member of Ubuntu Bengali Translators Team

* Beside that I am active on IRC, trying to help on some basic tricks to fix some basic system/package problems specially in #ubuntu-bd, #ubuntu-in, #sane and sometimes in #xubuntu and in #ubuntu-mate And also active in Ubuntu Facebook group and in Ubuntu Bangladesh Facebook group.

* Also we are trying to revive our BD LoCo with the help and motivations of Kilos, including #ubuntu-za guys, #ubuntu-za guys let us train ourselves in their channel on how to build the LoCo infrastructure and maintain it, how to hold monthly meetings on specific agendas and etc. In this quest, we have from our side AudaciousTUX, walrider, ashabadi, tareq, RemonShai, NaSb and maateen and of course zaki.

* And Trying to support Kilos in his helping to revive LoCos in Asia along with zaki and up to this August 2016, we had some partial success in #ubuntu-pk like bringing some life into that channel like Researcher, though he was there all the time but motionless but now he speaks and also some new peeps peeks in there in #ubuntu-pk.

P.S. Person's name primarilly refers to her/ his IRC Nicks.

Future Goals

"As I learn more of ubuntu's support structures, my ambitions are subject to change. I offer my abilities to foster ubuntu in any manner I can." - as a note copied from bashing-om.

Here in Bangladesh, linux(RedHat) is mostly preferred for server purpose, there are many training farms for RHCA and ORACLE and...., so I thought why not Ubuntu Server? Though there is online certification programmes for Ubuntu Server but the infrastructure of internet is not highperformance type outside the capital Dhaka, so the training farms are the main option for certifications. Its just an idea that if its possible, I'll arrange Ubuntu Server training locally in my country, I'll see if I can make some efforts on these context.

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