About

Name: Sridhar Dhanapalan

Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (UTC +1000)

GNU/Linux user since: 1998

Official Ubuntu Member since: 2006

About me: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/about/

Blog: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog

Launchpad profile: https://launchpad.net/~sridhar

Ubuntu Fora profile: http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=44804

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

• LinkedIn

• Google Plus

• Twitter

• Facebook

• Last.fm (what I have been listening to lately)

• Identi.ca (open microblogging)

• Affero

• A cow :p

Speaking

A selection of talks that I have given.

Some of these items are replicated in other sections as deemed appropriate.

• Live video interview for the Australian Council for Computers in Education Learning Network

• Keynote speaker at The Queensland Surveying and Spatial Conference, 2012

• Speaker at linux.conf.au 2012

  • detailed article

• Speaker at the Open Source Developers' Conference 2011

  • coverage in OLPC News

  • blog post

• OLPC Australia Second Anniversary Progress Report, given at the Sydney Linux Users Group, 27 May 2011

• Speaker (video) at linux.conf.au 2011

• Represented Linux Australia in the Live Online Event at the Sydney Moodle Conference 2006

Press

Places in the media where I (interviews) or my work have been featured.

Some of these items are replicated in other sections as deemed appropriate.

Direct

Unleash Kids

• 'Interview with Australian Council for Computers in Education Learning Network', 14 October 2013

OLPC Australia

• 'OLPC Australia is the Country's Toughest Linux Deployment', OLPC News, 2 December 2011

• 'XO-AU USB: An easy image for XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops', OLPC News, 10 August 2011

General

• 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, 18 October 2006

• Senior Administrator/Editor of PCLinuxOnline, 2000-2006

Indirect

OLPC Australia (some samples)

• 'Free laptops bridge digital divide', The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November 2013

• 'Laptops improving school attendance on Palm', ABC News, 16 February 2012

• Praise in Australian federal parliament

  • House of Representatives debates, 2 November 2011

  • 'Simple solution to our learning challenge', The Australian, 11 November 2011

• The OLPC Australia Programme in Action, 31 May 2011

• OLPC Australia awarded a Bronze Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, 2011

• 'Ideas for Good: One Laptop per Child Australia', Channel 7 television, December 2010

• 'Remote Revolution', The 7:30 Report (ABC1 television, Australia), 1 April 2010

• 'Arnhem Land school receives 200 laptops', Bigpond News, 31 March 2010

• 'Joy as computer power comes to Yirrkala', The Australian, 1 April 2010

BizCubed

• 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

FLOSS Community Contributions

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)

• A board member of Unleash Kids and Activity Central

• Engineering Manager, OLPC Australia (2010-2013)

• Leader of OLPC Australia community (2010-2013)

• Active member of One Laptop per Child: hardware, Sugar, XS server, documentation, community, pedagogy, deployments, etc.

• See the Speaking section for some presentations I have made

Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)

• Active member of the Sydney Linux Users Group

  • President, 2008-2010
  • Ordinary Committee Member, 2007

• Co-host and Speaker at Document Freedom Day Sydney 2008

• 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

• See the Speaking section for some presentations I have done

Linux Australia (LA)

• Active member of Linux Australia

  • Linux Australia Council, 2009-2010

  • Press Team
  • Web Team

    • Author, 'Introduction to Linux, Free Software and Open Source' (translated into Belarussian)

• 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)

• Administrator of the Ubuntu English (United Kingdom) Translators team

  • Founder of the English Translation initiative

  • Principal author of the English Translation wiki pages

  • Administrator 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)

• as Senior Administrator/Editor of PCLinuxOnline, oversaw the growth of this Web site into the largest independent Mandrake (now Mandriva) Linux community site in the early 2000s

• a founder of the successful PCLinuxOS distribution

• 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

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