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About Me

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 fall in love with Ubuntu for the themes and colour profile and the freedom to use the OS unlike Windows 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 that available in those times in Bangladesh and then for 2.5g modems using usb-modeswitch with specific code for each modems. I tried many Linux and Ubuntu flavours and every release of Ubuntu before Ubuntu 10.10 because after that I started using "LTS only" to be a little 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, 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.

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, specially Mr. Voltz did all the hardworks.

My graduate project works:

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 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.

Future Goals

Here in Bangladesh, linux(RedHat) is mostly preferred for server purpose, there are many training farms for RHCNA 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 firms are the main option for certifications. Its just a vision that if its possible, I'll arrange Ubuntu Server training locally, I'll see if I can make some effort in these context.