BaishampayanGhose
The Homepage of Baishampayan Ghose
attachment:baishampayan-head.png Hello, I am Baishampayan Ghose and I am an upcoming Ubuntu/Debian Developer from India. I have been using GNU/Linux for the past eight years and Ubuntu ever since Warty came out. I am also a Board member of the Free Software Foundation of India. As of now, I don't have many direct contributions to Ubuntu per se, but I am a regular contributor to the Debian project, which I guess percolates down to Ubuntu anyway. My contributions to Debian & Ubuntu so far are --
I am the maintainer of the Bengali (bn) translations to the Debian Graphical Installer (Since August, 2005)
I maintain two Debian packages which are in the main repository, (freetalk & itrans) with more coming up soon [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=b.ghose@gnu.org.in] (Since December 2005)
I am a member of the Ubuntu New User Network [https://launchpad.net/people/unp] (Since July, 2005)
I am the leader of IndianTeam the Indian LoCoTeam [https://launchpad.net/people/indian-team] (Since March, 2006)
I am an Admin. of the Bengali (bn) translations team in Rosetta [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-bn] (Since March, 2006)
I have reviewed/cleaned up patches on motu-reviewers and got the fixes uploaded (Patches given directly to PatrickDavies)
- I have done numerous translations on Rosetta (Since August, 2005)
I am a member of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Science MOTU-Science] Team (Since March, 2006)
- I am a Ubuntu Member (Since March, 2006)
- ...
On IRC I usually hang out in #indlinux, #linux-india, #gnu-india, #ubuntu-in, #ubuntu & #ubuntu-motu.
Bugs Fixed
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/6587 #6587]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/rtfm/+bug/32767 #32767]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/libccscript3/+bug/32363 #32363]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xawtv/+bug/6110 #6110]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xmoto/+bug/28491 #28491]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xsmbrowser/+bug/847 #847]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xastir/+bug/2184 #2184]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtick/+bug/31152 #31152]
Bugs Reported
Future Plans
- To do a lot of merges when Dapper+1 comes out
Do a lot of stuff for the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Science MOTU-Science] Team
- Fix more bugs on Malone
- More translations for Bengali
- Help more newbies on IRC
- Advocate Ubuntu in all major FOSS conferences
- Help Ubuntu achieve world domination, fast!
Personal Info
Email: b.ghose@DELETETHISgnu.org.in
GPG Key: [http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBB2CE24415AD05C5523A90E74249349486361B74 0x86361B74]
- IRC: G0SUB / GNULinuxer @irc.freenode.net
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/g0sub
Wiki Contribution
http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildOnUbuntu (co-written by me in June, 2005)
- ["InstallCDCustomizationHowTo"]