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| Arky is a technologist, hacktivist and a artist. With over 10 years of experience with gnu/Linux and now works with Braille Without Borders focusing on research and design of accessible technologies. | |
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| He holds degrees in Business Management and English Literature. He plans to work on doctoral studies in computational linguistics. | |
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Name:
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
Launchpad:
Email:
<arky@gnu.org.in>
Ubuntu Forums:
IRC:
^arky^ on freenode.net
Blog
About Me
Arky is a technologist, hacktivist and a artist. With over 10 years of experience with gnu/Linux and now works with Braille Without Borders focusing on research and design of accessible technologies.
He holds degrees in Business Management and English Literature. He plans to work on doctoral studies in computational linguistics.
- 30 years old, Indian, lives in Trivandrum, kerala (South India)
- Started using gnu/Linux in 1999 and later worked as sysadmin
Free Software advocate, long time volunteer for Free Software Foundation India
Co-founded Free Software User Group-Bangalore
Currently works for Braille Without Borders
- Area of interest: Accessibility (a11y), Documentation and Testing
Contributions to the Ubuntu Community
- Working with early alpha release of Jaunty and Karmic with focus on Ubuntu Accessibility issues.
- Running Gnome-orca with Ubuntu MID
Content contributions to Ubuntu Accessibility Guide
Testimonials
arky (last edited 2012-12-10 06:44:59 by arky)