About

Hello and Welcome!

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

Contact

• IRC : svaksha @irc.freenode.net

  Email : svaksha@gmail.com

  [http://www.svaksha.com Weblog]

  [https://launchpad.net/people/svaksha Launchpad Profile]

  [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/svaksha UW wikipage]

FOSS & Ubuntu Volunteer Experience

LinuxChix.org

• Admin the [http://linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/newchix Newchix] and [http://linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/jobposts Job-posts] mailing lists for [http://www.linuxchix.org LinuxChix], an online community for women "using" Linux.

DMOZ.org

• [http://dmoz.org/profiles/svaksha.html Editor] at [http://dmoz.org/ Dmoz], [http://musicmoz.org/ MusicMoz] since 2003.

• Currently restricted to anything related to [http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Debian/Flavours/Ubuntu/ Ubuntu], [http://dmoz.org/Computers/Open_Source/Software/Music_and_Audio/Libre Libre software for music and audio], and [http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan/Sanskrit/ Sanskrit].

Ubuntu-Women Team

• Ubuntu-Women - [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-women Launchpad]

• [http://www.ubuntu-women.org Ubuntu-Women.org]: Designed, created, and implemented the contents for the new website from our [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen old wiki page].

• Maintain the website and admin the [https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women UW mailing list].

• Co-ordinate the [http://www.ubuntu-women.org/mentoring.html mentoring] project with [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/ElizabethKrumbach Elizabeth Krumbach].

• Mentor women and guide new users on how to contribute to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Bug-Squad

• BugSquad - [https://launchpad.net/people/bugsquad/ Launchpad]

• Squash bugs on Malone and Ubuntu-bugzilla.
• Bugs reported

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

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

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

• [https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/37447 37447]

• [https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/37880 37880]

• 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 Marketing Team

• MarketingTeam - [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-marketing/ Launchpad]

  UbuntuMagazine

• [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-marketing/ Marketing] : Created a [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/milestones Milestones specification] for the Ubuntu Abanta(?) Magazine. The Mag project is still being discussed.

• Assisting Ubuntu Marketing team members, and other community groups and teams when needed.

Debian/Ubuntu Translation/Localisation

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

• 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).

• Translate for the Sanskrit localisation of packages in Ubuntu. Plan to increase volunteer translators for Sanskrit, a classical Indian language. Main impediments are its classical roots, lack of daily usage, with zero commercial value resulting in low interest as its practically considered a dead language by many people.

Advocacy, Misc.

• Various contributions in different Wiki's and Ubuntu mailing lists.
• 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.
• Advocate Ubuntu awareness whenever possible and have distributed my surplus Hoary, Breezy and Dapper CD's to many people locally and am happy to note that mostly students use it more than engineers.

Ubuntu-IN Loco Team

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam Ubuntu-IN] : Wrote the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam?action=recall&rev=2 initial drafts] for the Indian Loco team.

• Was involved with the [http://people.ubuntu.com/%7Efabbione/irclogs/archived/2006-03/ubuntu-meeting-2006-03-07.html setting up] of the Ubuntu-IN Loco team

• Was the mailing [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2006-March/000000.html 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)

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