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I, Bhavani Shankar, apply for MOTU.
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Bhavani Shankar |
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Who I am
I am a 22 year old cerebral palsy physically challenged guy studying final year BE in Electrical Engineering in BMSCE Bangalore India.
My Ubuntu story
My involvement in the community started back in 2007 where i worked on the forums (answered to around 4000 questions) which I really like doing Gradually I did a bit of translation in my mother tongue kannada and now active in bug triaging and packaging over past year and a half.I am an ubuntu member from November 2007
My involvement
My involvement In the commmunity ranges from the answer tracker to translations to malone and soyuz of late .. My list of packages can be found here
Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
Mostly I work on merges and syncs and new upstream versions and bugfixes. Some bugs I have fixed * 436540 * 350825 * 401334 * 407675 * 407668 * 400102 * 393105 * 391754 * 439394 Long list of packages uploaded can be found here
Areas of work
I mainly work on merges and syncs and updating packages. Especially I m interested in Science packages (Electronics to be precise) and as a part of the science team I updated the whole geda stack for jaunty in collaboration with dholbach(who has sponsored more than 100 packages for me) and I maintain few packages in debian Debian QA Page
Things I could do better
Perhaps maintain more packages in debian and in ubuntu
Plans for the future
Just to keep contributing in a single hand as long as possible
General
* Continue to keep contributing in whichever small way I can.
What I like least in Ubuntu
None. Its a previlage being a part of great community
Comments
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Endorsements
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== <SPONSORS NAME> == === General feedback === ## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?) === Specific Experiences of working together === ''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.'' === Areas of Improvement ===