vish

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I have been using Ubuntu as the primary OS since around June 2008. Before that , I tried it but had a few hardware problems. Ubuntu is my first linux experience. And have been sticking with it without second thoughts.

I usually do artwork for apps or projects which are in need of artwork. Triage bug reports in launchpad. I'm not actually a programmer. [But i have submitted one minor patch Big Grin :) , which changes the default options in compiz for a papercut bug]

Contact information

https://launchpad.net/@@/person Name:

K. Vishnoo Charan Reddy

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/17957513/gem-sm.png Launchpad::

vish...

https://launchpad.net/@@/language IRC:

vish on Freenode

Was earlier active in the ubuntu-forums but recent activity is more in launchpad and freenode irc

Activities

  • Humanity-icon team [elementary art team] , working closely with the design team in the theme's direction required for Ubuntu and helped in the smooth transition from Human to Humanity theme during Karmic cycle.

  • Papercutter's Team , have been helping out with papercut bugs long before a Papercutters team was even formed. I have only submitted one patch , but most of my work is triaging and fixing artwork related bugs, contacting upstream devs and providing design suggestions.
  • Member of the BugControl team and taking part during Hugdays

  • Breathe-icon team .

  • Notify-osd icons : Noticed that the design team was a bit busy and that the notify-osd icons had to be redone with different orientation, took up the task and submitted new set of battery icons for notify-osd. Which are currently being used since Karmic.
  • Icon work for Software-center.

  • Created the Lernid icon .

  • Created the alpha Title page for Ubuntu-Manual team. [also a member of the Ubuntu-manual design team]
  • Followed a launchpad bug upstream and I noticed Empathy Upstream devs requested icons for empathy and hence I'v been contributing to Empathy too.

  • Worked with another artist[Ulissee] and Submitted icons for Upstream Poppler to enable annotations support in evince , which should land in Lucid. [was informed of this by another member , since users noticed that annotations support was missing in Karmic]

  • N900 icon for Banshee .

  • Mockups for Update-manager [which is nearly close to what mpt expects to implement], software-center [and a couple of other projects ]

  • Actively Remote-participated in UDS Lucid since I was directly involved in a few of the discussions . Remotely followed discussions of UDS Karmic but participated to a minimum back then , was mainly observing the proceedings.

  • IRC support in #ubuntu-artwork , #ayatana and a regular presence in #ubuntu+1 , #ubuntu-bugs , #ubuntu-desktop where I help users when i can.
  • Submitting fixes for Ubuntu default themes.
  • Currently Involved in Upstream gnome-icon-theme icon work too.

Future Goals

  • Become a part of the Ubuntu Artwork Packagers team. -DONE
  • Do artwork/mockups as and when the need arises.
  • Create a Ubuntu-specific art request wiki page for use by Ubuntu related projects , which the community-art members can work on. [Already spoke about this to kwwii and wheels are in motion ]
  • Create a new interesting theme and try to get it included in the ubuntu-community themes. [have a rough plan in my head , and it is partially in progress]
  • If I ever get free time of atleast 6 months to refresh programing skills and really work on programming.
  • Upstream gnome-icon theme devs have asked me to start and maintain a new package in upstream itself , for extra icons [MIME and drives], will be hoping to do that as soon as possible.
  • Hopefully become an Ubuntu Member. -DONE

Testimonials

Vish has been an outstanding contributor to the artwork and papercuts team. He's very active and does great work. Offering Ubuntu membership to Vish is a no-brainer Smile :) kwwii

"No-brainer" is exactly the phrase that came to mind when discussing Vish's Ubuntu membership. Not only should Vish be made an Ubuntu member, we should clone him 100 times and make the clones members too! Contributors of Vish's caliber are extremely rare; he's an extremely talented artist, has great user experience understanding, and has a great curiosity for technical details as well, all of which make him completely well-rounded. djsiegel

Vish has been tireless in handling Papercuts and other design-related bug reports. He’s a quick learner and often provides useful design suggestions. — mpt

Vish is very active in the Bug Squad. Not only does he triage loads and loads of bugs, he also is there in IRC to provide help to new triagers,and is of great help in discussions. The fact that he has somehow found the time next to all this to contribute so much to Artwork is astonishing. - qense


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