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Indirect: Mostly advocracy through presentations and such, I have been promoting the use of Ubuntu in the community I live in and used to live in (back in India). So far I have been able to get over 400 installations of Ubuntu done and everyone seems to be happy. As a matter of fact, in my community where I live now, I have able to give people an idea on how amazing open source world can be Indirect: Mostly advocracy through presentations and such, I have been promoting the use of Ubuntu in the community I live in and used to live in (back in India). So far I have been able to get over 400 installations of Ubuntu done and everyone seems to be happy. I am trying hard with others like me to permanently solve bug#1. As a matter of fact, in my community where I live now, I have been able to give people an idea on how amazing open source world can be
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My plan in recent future is to learn more Ubuntu so I can actually make patches and help other more than what I can now. I want to complete my software that would make switch from other operating systems much easier and painless. I also intend to use Launchpad as a primary code hosting site for my school and my own use. I would want to contribute more and more into the documentation and most of all make others aware of Ubuntu. Why use Windows when one can use something atleast 50 times better for free.... My plan in recent future is to learn more Ubuntu so I can actually make patches and help other more than what I can now. I want to complete my software that would make switch from other operating systems much easier and painless. I also intend to use Launchpad as a primary code hosting site for my school and my own use. I would want to contribute more and more into the documentation and most of all make others aware of Ubuntu.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Vikram Dhillon

Launchpad ID:

https://launchpad.net/~dhillon-v10

GPG Key

BFCD20A1

My project

https://launchpad.net/imaging

IRC:

dhillon-v10 irc.freenode.net

Email:

dhillonv10@gmail.com

Team Memberships

Ubuntu Beginners Team | Ubuntu Doc Contributor | Ubuntu Florida LoCo | |Ubuntu Kernel Team | Ubuntu Audio Team | Ubuntu Bug Control

Summary

I am a teenager and I have been using Ubuntu for over 2 years now. My first encounter with ubuntu was when I got frustrated with Windows and wanted to look for an alternative. Since then I recommend Ubuntu to all the people I come in contact with and I am happy with what I found. Most of my work is in the field of Computer Vision with UCF : the art of making computer see what we do using mathematics, I just learned about hosting code on Launchpad and I have to say this is amazing. I am also planning to use my project in school and making more use of Launchpad with hosting code

My Understanding

A lot of people think that Ubuntu is only software and CD's but my thinking is different mostly because I could get in touch with some really amazing people in the community, those who respect each others ideas and this is what make Ubuntu different. Compare this to Microsoft, if I send them a blueprint of my idea, they would most likely not respond to the email and even if by some miracle they do they would most likely say Run Along...

This is one the best feature of Ubuntu, people like me and you can actually play a part in making something bigger than themselves. Also the meetings like Ubuntu Open Week when we have some professionals teach us more about some basic concepts about Ubuntu and such.

Contributions

Indirect: Mostly advocracy through presentations and such, I have been promoting the use of Ubuntu in the community I live in and used to live in (back in India). So far I have been able to get over 400 installations of Ubuntu done and everyone seems to be happy. I am trying hard with others like me to permanently solve bug#1. As a matter of fact, in my community where I live now, I have been able to give people an idea on how amazing open source world can be

Direct: I have been helping out answering questions, working and solving bugs, I have created my own project where I have a script that converts DICOM format to .pgm format for training classifiers and other SVM Kernels. I also have prepared images for training that are available for download. I am also working with OpenCV modifying the makefiles so their integration with OpenMP increases and the training process goes on much faster. Since I just joined Ubuntu my knowledge is limited but I am the kind of person who learns quick. I am also helping the Documentation Team with online wiki pages mostly that have been tagged needs-expansion. I hang out a lot on #ubuntu-doc, #ubuntu and #ubuntu-bugs #ubuntu-kernel helping others get their problems solved

Future Plans

My plan in recent future is to learn more Ubuntu so I can actually make patches and help other more than what I can now. I want to complete my software that would make switch from other operating systems much easier and painless. I also intend to use Launchpad as a primary code hosting site for my school and my own use. I would want to contribute more and more into the documentation and most of all make others aware of Ubuntu.

--- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. --- Thanks,

Vikram

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