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Carthik Sharma

Email: MailTo(mail AT SPAMFREE carthik DOT net)

Launchpad: [http://launchpad.net/people/carthik Launchpad profile]

Homepage/blog: [http://carthik.net carthik.net]

I am a Ph.D. Student at [http://www.ece.ucf.edu UCF]. I have been using Ubuntu since Warty and try to improve and popularize it.

Ubuntu Related Activities

Current & Past

Bugsquashing

I have [https://launchpad.net/people/carthik/+subscribedbugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Rejected&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Released&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used= worked on approximately 900 bugs], [https://launchpad.net/people/carthik/+reportedbugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Rejected&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Released&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used= reported around 50 bugs] (some of which were reportbug-ubuntu-users bounces) and help the [https://launchpad.net/people/desktop-bugs desktop bugs] and [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-qa Ubuntu QA] teams.

Ubuntu India Team

I hacked the beaglewiki style/theme for the [http://ubuntu-in.org Ubuntu India Local Team Wiki].

Writing

I maintain the [http://ubuntu.wordpress.com Ubuntu Blog], and have edited a few pages at the Ubuntu wiki.

Reviewing

I was the technical reviewer for [http://www.nostarch.com/ubuntu.htm Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks].

Marketing(?)

I am the treasurer of the [http://www.lugatucf.org/ UCF LUG],and distribute Ubuntu CDs at school, and try to help keep the LUG active.

I try to help new users at the #ubuntu IRC room, and other rooms, and also (very rarely) at the ubuntu-users mailing list. In other related work, I have been a [http://wordpress.org WordPress] developer and [http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Carthik documentor].

Future

Writing

Hope to contribute to the [http://fridge.ubuntu.com Fridge], and the wiki documentation.

Bugs

Would like to make it easier for newcomer triagers to get involved.

MOTU

Would like to start helping with merges/syncs/bugfixes, time permitting.

Comments

Carthik is a very active part of Ubuntu India. He has been doing a lot of bug triaging of late too, and his Ubuntu Blog at http://ubuntu.wordpress.com is extremely popular and has been linked to from various websites on numerous ocassions. +1 from me on membership :) --- BaishampayanGhose

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