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Hello and Welcome

Vidya Ayer

Hails from India and is an Ubuntu user since Warty. BR She currently volunteers for [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].

Founded [http://www.ubuntu-women.org Ubuntu-Women] - [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-women Launchpad]
Designed, created, wrote and implemented the contents for static and wiki pages for the new website while migrating from the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen old wiki page].
Maintains the website and admins the [https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women UW mailing list].
Co-ordinates the [http://www.ubuntu-women.org/mentoring.html mentoring] project with [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/ElizabethKrumbach Elizabeth Krumbach] and guides new users on how to contribute to Ubuntu. Also wrote the [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/MentoringFAQ Mentoring FAQ], IRC guidelines, and many other [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/FrontPage U-W Wiki] pages.

Editor at the [http://fridge.ubuntu.com Ubuntu Fridge] - [https://launchpad.net/people/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.

MarketingTeam - [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-marketing/ Launchpad]
Active on the list and assists Marketing team members in planning and when required.
UbuntuMagazine : Created a [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/milestones Milestones specification] for the Ubuntu Magazine which may now be frozen with the Fridge.

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).
Translates for the Sanskrit localisation of packages in Ubuntu. Plans to increase volunteer translators for Sanskrit, a classical Indian language. Main impediments are its classical roots, lack of regular usage. Low, almost zero commercial value has also contributed to the low interest and is considered a dead language by many people.

Various contributions in different Wiki's, community groups/teams and Ubuntu mailing lists.
Time-permitting, hopes to pitch in with tasks and be useful to the Motu's by trying to learn about packaging, testing, other technical details about Ubuntu, its relation with Debian and how they work in tandem.
Advocates Ubuntu awareness whenever possible by distributing surplus Hoary, Breezy and Dapper CD's to many people locally and found students using it more than engineers in the IT industry.