Hello and Welcome

SVAKSHA

I dont maintain this wiki-page regularly. An updated Bio is maintained here: http://svaksha.com/pages/Bio

An Ubuntu volunteer since Warty and an ex-Ubuntu member (2006aug22 - 2008) who currently volunteers at Ubuntu, Ubuntu-Women, Debian-Women, KDE-Women and Linuxchix and IndiChix- the Indian chapter.

• IRC : svaksha @irc.freenode.net

  Email : svaksha # gmail.com

  Launchpad Profile

  Ubuntu-Women wikipage

  Blog : svaksha.com

Libre software projects i volunteer in:

LinuxChix.org

• Admins the Newchix and Job-posts mailing lists for LinuxChix, an online community for women "using" Linux.

• Admins the Indichix (Indian) list.

KDE-women

• Admins the KDE-Women mailing list.

Ubuntu-Women

• Founded Ubuntu-Women - Launchpad

• Designed, created, wrote and implemented the contents for static and wiki pages for the new website while migrating from the old wiki page.

• Maintains the website and admins the UW mailing list.

• Co-ordinates the mentoring project with Elizabeth Krumbach and guides new users on how to contribute to Ubuntu. Also wrote the Mentoring FAQ, IRC guidelines, and many other U-W Wiki pages.

Ubuntu Fridge

• Editor at the Ubuntu Fridge - Launchpad

• Hopes to stock the Fridge with news, articles, and other bytes flowing in from the Ubuntu community.
• Plans to synchronise news with grassroots marketing, events, advocacy, team collaboration, and other sound bytes.

Ubuntu Brainstorm

• Moderator at Brainstorm

Ubuntu Marketing

• MarketingTeam - Launchpad

• Active on the list and assists Marketing team members in planning.

  UbuntuMagazine : Created a Milestones specification for the Ubuntu Magazine, which has been merged with the Fridge.

Ubuntu Bug-Squad

• BugSquad - Launchpad

Debian/Ubuntu Translation/Localisation

• Sanskrit Translators Launchpad

• Co-wrote a Sanskrit (SA) language locale with Christian Perrier (bubulle), which awaits inclusion in the Debian package : belocs-locales-data and also in package: locales (version: 2.3.5-6).

Advocacy, Misc

• Various contributions in different Wiki's, community groups/teams and Ubuntu mailing lists.

Ubuntu-IN Loco Team

• Ubuntu-IN : Wrote the initial drafts for the Indian Loco team.

• Was involved with the setting up of the Ubuntu-IN Loco team

• Was the mailing list admin for a short while.

Wiki Contributions

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicCommands (now a part of Ubuntu documentation)

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen (has moved to new site)

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen/Mentors (moved to new site)

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen/Ideas (moved to new site)

• Ubuntu Weekly News issue #9 : Here is the original paragraph contributed for the MOTU School article.

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