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| '''Location''' : Bangalore, Karnataka, India | == About Me == |
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| '''Languages''' : Tamil, English, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam | Entered into GNU/Linux community in 2004 with joining Indian Linux User Group's Chennai Chapter (ILUGC). Started volunteering for workshops, seminars and demo days conducted by ILUGC and slowly scrawling over the learning curve. Starting with Red Hat <some-version> and Mandrake, tried Ubuntu when Warty was out and made it my secondary desktop. When Dapper was out, moved my desktop machine completely to Ubuntu and did the same with my new laptop which I had managed to acquire by then. |
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| '''Education''' : Bach. of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics | As I wasn't using IRC much, missed out joining the Ubuntu India Team till it matured into a vibrant team, but since the day of joining the Indian team I have been always an active member of the team. Joined the Ubuntu Tamil Team when it was created, though I didn't contribute directly through Translation @ LaunchPad. My major Tamil localization contribution goes to Django project during 2006. By 2006, had become one of the core members of Ubuntu India Team and started sharing responsibilities of managing team resources with other core members from the team. |
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| '''Favourite Subject''' : Control Systems, Integrated Circuits | As I became a part-time FOSS evangelist as a part of my day work, I got the opportunity to speak to lots of academic population and made used of the opportunities to enlighten them on Ubuntu as well. Also started mentoring students on their academic projects using FOSS. Contribution to Ubuntu remained mainly in the form of helping others, filing bugs especially trying during alpha and beta periods and spreading Ubuntu to people around, especially academic community. |
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| '''Hobbies''' : Fiction Novels, Reading, Blog, Point-and-Shoot & Macro Photography | Migrated from Chennai to Bangalore, from being a FOSS Researcher to full-time Python programmer in my day job, which kinda deterred spending more time on FOSS and Ubuntu. Started doing bug triage since Jan 2007, joined 5-a-day team and been moderately active in bug triage. Of late, joined with ["Aanjhan"] and ["OnkarShinde"] in conducting sessions on Bug triage and Packaging at #ubuntu-in-classroom, as well as started blogging in Tamil on articles related to FOSS, GNU/Linux and Ubuntu which I had been doing all these days in English. |
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| Hobbies include Blogging, Reading and Photography (point-and-shoot, macro) | |
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| == Kontakt == | == @ Ubuntu == |
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| '''Email''' : parth [DOT] technofreak [AT] gmail [DOT] com | === Ubuntu India Team === |
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| '''IRC''' : parthan | teKnofreak | techno_freak @ irc.freenode.net :: #ubuntu-in, ##linux-india, #ilugchennai, #kde-in, #ubuntu, #ubuntu-bugs, #python, #emacs | * An active and core member of Ubuntu India Team, managing resources such as Mailing list, IRC Channel and Team website/wiki. * Represent Ubuntu and Indian Team during various FOSS conferences and events such as FOSS.IN/2007, FOSS.NITC, FOSSConf Chennai'08, etc. * Conduct session in #ubuntu-in-classroom on various Ubuntu related topics |
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| '''Blog''' : http://blog.technofreak.in | === Ubuntu Bug Squad === |
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| '''Album''' : http://photos.technofreak.in | * A committed and patient bug triager in Ubuntu Bug Squad. I felt triaging to be comfortable, fun and to be one of the good ways to contribute to Ubuntu, but I need to spend more time for it which am trying my best to do. * Moderately active member of 5-a-day team |
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| '''Twitter''' : http://twitter.com/technofreak | === Ubuntu Tamil Team === |
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| * Contribute to Tamil localization efforts * Write articles in Tamil on Ubuntu and FOSS |
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| == Career == | == Future Plans == |
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| '''Current Designation''' : Software Engineer, Comat Technologies, Bangalore '''Job Profiles''' : Python Programmer(CGI, Webpy, Plone, Pylons, Trac), Packaging and Repository Maintainer (Internal), Usability Practitioner, Documentation Library Maintainer == FOSS Interests == * GNU/Linux, FreeBSD * GNOME & KDE * Python, Django, Pylons, Zope, Plone * PostgreSQL & MySQL * GNU Emacs * Apache, JavaScript, CSS, Trac * PHP, Perl, Bash, Scheme/Lisp == Contribution to Ubuntu == * Helping out new members with their queries and problems in #ubuntu-in and sometimes in #ubuntu * Administrator of Mailing List and IRC Channel OP for Ubuntu India Team * Member of Ubuntu Bug Squad and routine Bug Triager * Member of 5-a-day team * Member of Ubuntu Tamil (Translators) Team == The Story == Enlightened and motivated by a couple of friends, started with GNU/Linux sometime around end of 2002 with Mandrake/Red Hat. Joined Indian Linux User Group, Chennai Chapter and started my journey as a part of the FOSS community. Started using Ubuntu since Warty, but was only a secondary distro then. With Breezy, Ubuntu became my primary GNU/Linux distribution and Dapper made me migrate completely to Ubuntu. For long didn't realize that I can become a part of Ubuntu community, having not even looked much into Launchpad. Joined Ubuntu India Loco Team during it's initial days, though not a part of it's starting members. Took some more time to learn about GPG keys and get one for me, the first thing I did on getting one was became an Ubuntero by completing my account in LP. Later joined Ubuntu Tamil Team when I started doing Tamil translation for Django and contributed now and then. Became a Core part of Ubuntu India Team, and started representing it whenever I visited Colleges and spoke to Students as a part of my day job at NRCFOSS. During the period between 2005 to 2007 did a lot of FOSS evangelism and awareness programmes like Workshops and Seminars in Colleges, Linux Demo Days, Mentoring students, etc. along with a few other members of ILUGC. Moved to Bangalore and became a full time Software Engineer with a wide variety of job profiles included. Was the Ubuntu India contact for Ubuntu/Debian Project Day during FOSS.IN 2007, which was a very successful first appearance of Ubuntu India Team though we couldn't manage to bring any bigshots from Ubuntu community. Also got a late realization and joined the Ubuntu Bug Squad and ever since been doing Bug Triage whenever I got some time. Currently representing the Ubuntu India Team for Global Bug Jam and also organizing a series of exposure sessions in Bug Triage and basic Packaging along with fellow members ["Aanjhan"] and ["OnkarShinde"]. |
* Spend at least an hour each day on Bug Triage, apply for membership to Bug Control Team * Learn packaging and try to contribute through packaging as well * Write tutorials and howtos in Tamil (and continue doing it in English :) * Contribute more to Tamil localization efforts. Currently planning to work on Django Tamil localization for 1.0 release * Help strengthen Ubuntu India Team and make it more active, vibrant and much more contributing team in Ubuntu community. This includes helping more new comers to start contributing, making the wiki a library of resources on Ubuntu, encouraging members to contribute to localization in their own languages and help bind the team together in spite of individual differences and interests. |
About Me
Entered into GNU/Linux community in 2004 with joining Indian Linux User Group's Chennai Chapter (ILUGC). Started volunteering for workshops, seminars and demo days conducted by ILUGC and slowly scrawling over the learning curve. Starting with Red Hat <some-version> and Mandrake, tried Ubuntu when Warty was out and made it my secondary desktop. When Dapper was out, moved my desktop machine completely to Ubuntu and did the same with my new laptop which I had managed to acquire by then.
As I wasn't using IRC much, missed out joining the Ubuntu India Team till it matured into a vibrant team, but since the day of joining the Indian team I have been always an active member of the team. Joined the Ubuntu Tamil Team when it was created, though I didn't contribute directly through Translation @ LaunchPad. My major Tamil localization contribution goes to Django project during 2006. By 2006, had become one of the core members of Ubuntu India Team and started sharing responsibilities of managing team resources with other core members from the team.
As I became a part-time FOSS evangelist as a part of my day work, I got the opportunity to speak to lots of academic population and made used of the opportunities to enlighten them on Ubuntu as well. Also started mentoring students on their academic projects using FOSS. Contribution to Ubuntu remained mainly in the form of helping others, filing bugs especially trying during alpha and beta periods and spreading Ubuntu to people around, especially academic community.
Migrated from Chennai to Bangalore, from being a FOSS Researcher to full-time Python programmer in my day job, which kinda deterred spending more time on FOSS and Ubuntu. Started doing bug triage since Jan 2007, joined 5-a-day team and been moderately active in bug triage. Of late, joined with ["Aanjhan"] and ["OnkarShinde"] in conducting sessions on Bug triage and Packaging at #ubuntu-in-classroom, as well as started blogging in Tamil on articles related to FOSS, GNU/Linux and Ubuntu which I had been doing all these days in English.
Hobbies include Blogging, Reading and Photography (point-and-shoot, macro)
@ Ubuntu
Ubuntu India Team
- An active and core member of Ubuntu India Team, managing resources such as Mailing list, IRC Channel and Team website/wiki.
- Represent Ubuntu and Indian Team during various FOSS conferences and events such as FOSS.IN/2007, FOSS.NITC, FOSSConf Chennai'08, etc.
- Conduct session in #ubuntu-in-classroom on various Ubuntu related topics
Ubuntu Bug Squad
- A committed and patient bug triager in Ubuntu Bug Squad. I felt triaging to be comfortable, fun and to be one of the good ways to contribute to Ubuntu, but I need to spend more time for it which am trying my best to do.
- Moderately active member of 5-a-day team
Ubuntu Tamil Team
- Contribute to Tamil localization efforts
- Write articles in Tamil on Ubuntu and FOSS
Future Plans
- Spend at least an hour each day on Bug Triage, apply for membership to Bug Control Team
- Learn packaging and try to contribute through packaging as well
Write tutorials and howtos in Tamil (and continue doing it in English
- Contribute more to Tamil localization efforts. Currently planning to work on Django Tamil localization for 1.0 release
- Help strengthen Ubuntu India Team and make it more active, vibrant and much more contributing team in Ubuntu community. This includes helping more new comers to start contributing, making the wiki a library of resources on Ubuntu, encouraging members to contribute to localization in their own languages and help bind the team together in spite of individual differences and interests.
Parthan (last edited 2008-08-07 07:10:17 by 220)