SridharDhanapalan
About
Name: Sridhar Dhanapalan
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (UTC +1000)
GNU/Linux user since: 1998
Official Ubuntu Member since: 2006
About me: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/about/
Blog: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog
Launchpad profile: https://launchpad.net/~sridhar
Ubuntu Fora profile: http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=44804
Contact
E-mail: sridhar AT dhanapalan DOT com
XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk: sridhar AT dhanapalan DOT com
IRC: yama on irc.freenode.net and irc.oftc.net
OpenPGP/GnuPG key: 0x049D38B4
Links
Speaking
A selection of talks that I have given.
Some of these items are replicated in other sections as deemed appropriate.
Live video interview for the Australian Council for Computers in Education Learning Network
Keynote speaker at The Queensland Surveying and Spatial Conference, 2012
Speaker at linux.conf.au 2012
OLPC Australia Second Anniversary Progress Report, given at the Sydney Linux Users Group, 27 May 2011
Represented Linux Australia in the Live Online Event at the Sydney Moodle Conference 2006
Press
Places in the media where I (interviews) or my work have been featured.
Some of these items are replicated in other sections as deemed appropriate.
Direct
Unleash Kids
OLPC Australia
'OLPC Australia is the Country's Toughest Linux Deployment', OLPC News, 2 December 2011
'XO-AU USB: An easy image for XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops', OLPC News, 10 August 2011
General
Interviewed and quoted: 'Opinion: Open Source advocates discuss Windows addition to OLPC', iTnews, 6 June 2008
Interviewed and quoted: 'Open Source is the 'software establishment', report says', iTnews, 2 May 2008
Interviewed and quoted: 'ReiserFS developer convicted of murder', iTnews, 29 April 2008
Author of article, 'Freedom in the Digital Age', Masala Times, 15 February 2007
Interviewed for Open Source On The Air, episode 11, 18 October 2006
Senior Administrator/Editor of PCLinuxOnline, 2000-2006
Indirect
OLPC Australia (some samples)
'Free laptops bridge digital divide', The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November 2013
'Laptops improving school attendance on Palm', ABC News, 16 February 2012
- Praise in Australian federal parliament
House of Representatives debates, 2 November 2011
'Simple solution to our learning challenge', The Australian, 11 November 2011
The OLPC Australia Programme in Action, 31 May 2011
OLPC Australia awarded a Bronze Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, 2011
'Ideas for Good: One Laptop per Child Australia', Channel 7 television, December 2010
'Remote Revolution', The 7:30 Report (ABC1 television, Australia), 1 April 2010
'Arnhem Land school receives 200 laptops', Bigpond News, 31 March 2010
'Joy as computer power comes to Yirrkala', The Australian, 1 April 2010
BizCubed
My work referenced: 'NSW Office of State Revenue CIO reflects on five successful years of open source', CIO Magazine, 1 October 2008
My work referenced: 'Insurance company bets health on open source', TechWorld, 23 June, 2008
FLOSS Community Contributions
This is an incomplete list of my contributions to the free/libre and open source software community. I'll try to cover the main ones, but it's likely that I have forgotten some. A lot has happened since I started using free software in 1998 
- General GNU/Linux and free software advocacy, both online and in person
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
A board member of Unleash Kids and Activity Central
Engineering Manager, OLPC Australia (2010-2013)
Leader of OLPC Australia community (2010-2013)
Active member of One Laptop per Child: hardware, Sugar, XS server, documentation, community, pedagogy, deployments, etc.
See the Speaking section for some presentations I have made
Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)
Active member of the Sydney Linux Users Group
- President, 2008-2010
- Ordinary Committee Member, 2007
Co-host and Speaker at Document Freedom Day Sydney 2008
Organiser, Software Freedom Day 2007 in Sydney
Co-organiser, SLUG Bootcamp, 2007
Member of the Audio/Visual Team and general helper for Software Freedom Day 2006 in Sydney
See the Speaking section for some presentations I have done
Linux Australia (LA)
Active member of Linux Australia
Linux Australia Council, 2009-2010
- Press Team
- Web Team
Author, 'Introduction to Linux, Free Software and Open Source' (translated into Belarussian)
Co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, Sydney Education Expo, 2008
Joint co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, Open CeBIT Australia, 2008
Co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, Open CeBIT Australia, 2007
- Organiser, CeBIT panel discussion on the Free Software community
Volunteer at linux.conf.au 2007
- lead video encoder, Audio/Visual Team
- Ubuntu-Au stand at Open Day
- Other miscellaneous duties
Representative at the Sydney Moodle Conference, 2006
Represented Linux Australia in the Live Online Event
Representative at the Sydney Education Expo, 2006
Representative at CeBIT Sydney, 2006
Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA)
Active member of Open Source Industry Australia
Representative at the OSIA stand, Open CeBIT Australia, 2008
FLOSS Community Contributions: Software Projects
This is an incomplete list of my contributions to software projects in the free/libre and open source software community. As in the previous section, I'll try to cover the main ones, but it's likely that I have forgotten some.
Pentaho (2007 - 2010)
Active member of the Pentaho community: documentation, community, testing, etc.
Fedora (2007 - present)
Active member of the Fedora community.
CentOS (2007 - present)
Active member of the CentOS community.
Ubuntu (2005 - present)
Refer to my Launchpad profile for further detail.
Active member of Ubuntu-Au (including #ubuntu-au on irc.freenode.net)
Administrator of the Ubuntu English (United Kingdom) Translators team
Founder of the English Translation initiative
Principal author of the English Translation wiki pages
Administrator of the ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list
Contributor to the Laptop Testing Team:
Major contributor to the Dell Inspiron 9400 page and original author of the Dell Inspiron 3800 page
Ubuntu-Au stand at linux.conf.au 2007 Open Day (see above)
- Bugs reporter and tester
Gentoo (2002 - 2009)
- Active member of Web fora
- Active member of Gentoo-Au (including #gentoo-au on irc.freenode.net)
- Created and tested ebuilds
- Bugs reporter and tester
PCLinuxOnline / PCLinuxOS (2000 - 2006)
as Senior Administrator/Editor of PCLinuxOnline, oversaw the growth of this Web site into the largest independent Mandrake (now Mandriva) Linux community site in the early 2000s
a founder of the successful PCLinuxOS distribution
Administrator of the PCLinuxOnline and PCLinuxOS mailing list and Web forum
Original author and maintainer, PCLinuxOS Wikipedia page
- Created packages and artwork
- Bugs reporter and tester
Mandrake Linux (1998 - 2004)
- Active member of Web fora and Newbie, Expert, Cooker and MNF mailing lists
- Bugs reporter and tester
GNOME/KDE/Xfce/X
Miscellaneous scripts and themes
- Active member of mailing lists
- Bugs reporter and tester
Galeon
Maintainer of Smart Bookmark Archive
- Active member of mailing lists
- Bugs reporter and tester
Other
Miscellaneous bug reports, testing and fixes to Mozilla, OpenOffice.org and many other projects
- Posts to mailing lists and Web fora of many FLOSS projects
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