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| == One Laptop per Child (OLPC) == * Active member of [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sridhar|One Laptop per Child]]: hardware, Sugar, XS server, documentation, community, pedagogy, deployments, etc. * Active member of [[http://www.olpcfriends.org/|OLPC Friends]] |
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About
Name: Sridhar Dhanapalan
GNU/Linux user since: 1998
Homepage: http://www.dhanapalan.com
Blog: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog
Launchpad profile: https://launchpad.net/people/sridhar
Ubuntu Fora profile: http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=44804
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Age: I was born in 1982. Work it out 
Gender: Male
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (UTC +1000)
I was born in Sydney, and spent a wonderful six years of my childhood in Coonamble before returning in 1990.
Contact
E-mail: sridhar AT dhanapalan DOT com
XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk: sridhar AT dhanapalan DOT com
IRC: yama on irc.freenode.net and irc.oftc.net
OpenPGP/GnuPG key: 0x049D38B4
Links
FLOSS Community Contributions: Press
Some of these items are replicated in other sections as deemed appropriate.
My work referenced: 'NSW Office of State Revenue CIO reflects on five successful years of open source', CIO Magazine, 1 October, 2008
My work referenced: 'Insurance company bets health on open source', TechWorld, 23 June, 2008
Interviewed and quoted: 'Opinion: Open Source advocates discuss Windows addition to OLPC', iTnews, 6 June, 2008
Interviewed and quoted: 'Open Source is the 'software establishment', report says', iTnews, 2 May, 2008
Interviewed and quoted: 'ReiserFS developer convicted of murder', iTnews, 29 April, 2008
Author of article, 'Freedom in the Digital Age', Masala Times, 15 February, 2007
Interviewed for Open Source On The Air, episode 11 (2006-10-18)
Represented Linux Australia in the Live Online Event at the Sydney Moodle Conference, 2006
Senior Administrator/Editor of PCLinuxOnline, 2000-2006
FLOSS Community Contributions: General
This is an incomplete list of my contributions to the free/libre and open source software community. I'll try to cover the main ones, but it's likely that I have forgotten some. A lot has happened since I started using free software in 1998
- General GNU/Linux and free software advocacy, both online and in person
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Active member of One Laptop per Child: hardware, Sugar, XS server, documentation, community, pedagogy, deployments, etc.
Active member of OLPC Friends
Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)
Active member of the Sydney Linux Users Group
- Elected to the post of President, 2008-2010
- Elected to the post of Ordinary Committee Member, 2007
Organiser, Software Freedom Day 2007 in Sydney
Co-organiser, SLUG Bootcamp, 2007
Member of the Audio/Visual Team and general helper for Software Freedom Day 2006 in Sydney
Linux Australia (LA)
Active member of Linux Australia
- Elected to the Linux Australia Council, 2009-2010
- Press Team
- Web Team
Author and maintainer, 'Introduction to Linux, Free Software and Open Source'
Co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, Sydney Education Expo, 2008
Joint co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, Open CeBIT Australia, 2008
Co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, Open CeBIT Australia, 2007
- Organiser, CeBIT panel discussion on the Free Software community
Volunteer at linux.conf.au 2007
- lead video encoder, Audio/Visual Team
- Ubuntu-Au stand at Open Day
- Other miscellaneous duties
Representative at the Sydney Moodle Conference, 2006
Represented Linux Australia in the Live Online Event
Representative at the Sydney Education Expo, 2006
Representative at CeBIT Sydney, 2006
Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA)
Active member of Open Source Industry Australia
Representative at the OSIA stand, Open CeBIT Australia, 2008
FLOSS Community Contributions: Software Projects
This is an incomplete list of my contributions to software projects in the free/libre and open source software community. As in the previous section, I'll try to cover the main ones, but it's likely that I have forgotten some.
Pentaho (2007-2010)
Active member of the Pentaho community: documentation, community, testing, etc.
Fedora (2007 - present)
Active member of the Fedora community.
CentOS (2007 - present)
Active member of the CentOS community.
Ubuntu (2005 - present)
Refer to my Launchpad profile for further detail.
Active member of Ubuntu-Au (including #ubuntu-au on irc.freenode.net)
Adminstrator of the Ubuntu English (United Kingdom) Translators team
Founder of the English Translation initiative
Principal author of the English Translation wiki pages
Adminstrator of the ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list
Contributor to the Laptop Testing Team:
Major contributor to the Dell Inspiron 9400 page and original author of the Dell Inspiron 3800 page
Ubuntu-Au stand at linux.conf.au 2007 Open Day (see above)
- Bugs reporter and tester
Gentoo (2002 - 2009)
- Active member of Web fora
- Active member of Gentoo-Au (including #gentoo-au on irc.freenode.net)
- Created and tested ebuilds
- Bugs reporter and tester
PCLinuxOnline / PCLinuxOS (2000-2006)
Senior Administrator/Editor of PCLinuxOnline
Administrator of the PCLinuxOnline and PCLinuxOS mailing list and Web forum
Original author and maintainer, PCLinuxOS Wikipedia page
- Created packages and artwork
- Bugs reporter and tester
Mandrake Linux (1998-2004)
- Active member of Web fora and Newbie, Expert, Cooker and MNF mailing lists
- Bugs reporter and tester
GNOME/KDE/Xfce/X
Miscellaneous scripts and themes
- Active member of mailing lists
- Bugs reporter and tester
Galeon
Maintainer of Smart Bookmark Archive
- Active member of mailing lists
- Bugs reporter and tester
Other
Miscellaneous bug reports, testing and fixes to Mozilla, OpenOffice.org and many other projects
- Posts to mailing lists and Web fora of many FLOSS projects
My Plans for Ubuntu
The bulk of my current focus is on the English Translation effort. I would like a unified translation that suits the needs of most (Commonwealth) English speakers, and provides the means to create localised variants with only minimal alteration. I would like to co-ordinate this with similar translation efforts upstream and in other distributions.
I would also like to help with the community-building and marketing efforts of Ubuntu. I love the community-focus of this distribution, and its respect for free software ideals.
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