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Hello and Welcome !

I am Vidya, an Ubuntu user and active volunteer in [http://www.linuxchix.org Linuxchix], [http://women.alioth.debian.org/ Debian-Women], [http://www.ubuntu-women.org Ubuntu-Women] and [http://dmoz.org/ DMOZ].

Contact

• IRC Nick: svaksha @irc.freenode.net

• Email : svaksha@gmail.com

• [http://www.svaksha.com Personal web-site]

• [https://launchpad.net/people/svaksha My_Launchpad_page]

FLOSS Volunteer

• Administer 2 mailing lists with [http://www.linuxchix.org LinuxChix], an online community for women "using" Linux.

• Co-wrote a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2005/10/msg00008.html 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).

• Editor at [http://dmoz.org/profiles/svaksha.html dmoz.org] for anything [http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Debian/Flavours/Ubuntu/ Ubuntu] related.

Ubuntu Volunteer

• Set-up [http://www.ubuntu-women.org Ubuntu-Women] and also admin the mailing list.

• Ocassionally squash bugs on Malone and Ubuntu-bugzilla.
• Currently translate for the Sanskrit localisation of packages in Ubuntu for Indian languages.

• Wrote the initial draft for the Indian Loco team & helped set-up Ubuntu-IN loco team.

Wiki's and Teams created

• [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-sa Ubuntu Sanskrit Translators Team]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen Ubuntu-Women] wiki

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomenMentors Ubuntu-Mentors] wiki

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam Indian Team] wiki

Bugs reported

• [https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/1545 bug_1545]

• [https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/1558 bug_1558]

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/launchpad-integration/+bug/3445 bug_3445]

• Cant remember the numbers for the other bugs filed.

Bugs triaged

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/3419 bug_3419]

• [https://launchpad.net/products/rosetta/+bug/3228 bug_3228]

• [https://launchpad.net/products/rosetta/+bug/3163 bug_3163]

• [https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/3385 bug_3385]

Ubuntu & I

• Setup [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen Ubuntu-Women] : Currently in the process of creating the web-site. Besides this, I admin its mailing list through which we try and create a open communication medium between people and increase the participation of women in the technical arena. To achieve this, I am trying to learn about packaging, testing and learning other technical details about Ubuntu and its relation with Debian and how they work in tandem.

• Advocacy and [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam Ubuntu-IN] :

• To increase Ubuntu-awareness in India, I had distributed my surplus Hoary CD's to many people locally and am happy to note that mostly students used it more than engineers. I plan to distribute the Breezy CD's to local school students and schools.

• Increase volunteer translators for Sanskrit. Main impediments are that its a classical language with zero commercial value resulting in low interest as its practically considered a dead language by many people.

• Action plan is := Rather than just evangelising about Ubuntu-Linux and handing out free CD's, a more focussed approach would be to target specific people (non-Linux users willing to try Ubuntu) and install/dual-boot Ubuntu for them if they cant do it themselves.
• Collect old computers and install Ubuntu and donate these to students/people/NGO's who cannot but new machines.

• With the setting up of our [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam Ubuntu-IN] team, we plan to spread Ubuntu among local companies, Laptop and PC vendors.

• Increase the visibility by representing and promoting Ubuntu at local FLOSS events.

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