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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: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney Sydney], New South Wales, Australia (GMT +1000)

I was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney Sydney], and spent a wonderful six years of my childhood in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonamble 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: [http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x049D38B4&op=index 0x049D38B4]

Links

• [http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=Yama Affero]

• [http://mugshot.org/person?who=y2LYNrbYvY5gVD Mugshot!]

• [http://www.last.fm/user/LordYama/ Last.fm] (what I have been listening to lately)

• [http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=560742867 Facebook]

• [http://twitter.com/lordyama Twitter]

• [http://www.spock.com/user3679cp28k4869p9199k271sp5s5k369p9spc6 Spock]

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Friesian-Holstein.jpg A cow]

FLOSS Community Contributions: Press

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

• My work referenced: '[http://www.techworld.com.au/article/226081/insurance_company_bets_health_open_source Insurance company bets health on open source]', June 23, 2008

• Interviewed and quoted: '[http://www.itnews.com.au/Feature/4611,opinion-open-source-advocates-discuss-windows-addition-to-olpc.aspx Opinion: Open Source advocates discuss Windows addition to OLPC]', iTnews, June 6, 2008

• Interviewed and quoted: '[http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=75163 Open Source is the 'software establishment', report says]', iTnews, May 2, 2008

• Interviewed and quoted: '[http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=74939 ReiserFS developer convicted of murder]', iTnews, April 29, 2008

• Author of article, 'Freedom in the Digital Age', [http://masalatimes.com.au/ Masala Times], February 15, 2007

• Interviewed for [http://www.localfoss.org/node/188 Open Source On The Air], [http://www.localfoss.org/node/319 episode 11] (2006-10-18)

• Represented Linux Australia in the [http://smc.monte.nsw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=11 Live Online Event] at the [http://smc.monte.nsw.edu.au/ Sydney Moodle Conference, 2006]

• Senior Administrator/Editor of [http://www.pclinuxonline.com 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

Sydney Linux Users Group

• Active member of the [http://www.slug.org.au Sydney Linux Users Group]

  • Elected to the post of President, 2008
  • Elected to the post of Ordinary Committee Member, 2007

• Organiser, [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day] 2007 in Sydney

• Co-organiser, [http://www.slug.org.au/2007/bootcamp SLUG Bootcamp], 2007

• Member of the Audio/Visual Team and general helper for [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day] 2006 in Sydney

Linux Australia

• Active member of [http://www.linux.org.au Linux Australia]

  • Press Team
  • Web Team

    • Author and maintainer, [http://www.linux.org.au/linux 'Introduction to Linux, Free Software and Open Source']

• Co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, [http://www.edexpo.info/ Sydney Education Expo], 2008

• Co-ordinator of the Linux Australia stand, [http://www.opencebit.com.au/ Open CeBIT Australia], 2007

  • Organiser, CeBIT panel discussion on the Free Software community

• Volunteer at [http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ linux.conf.au 2007]

  • lead video encoder, Audio/Visual Team
  • Ubuntu-Au stand at Open Day
  • Other miscellaneous duties

• Representative at the [http://smc.monte.nsw.edu.au/ Sydney Moodle Conference, 2006]

  • Represented Linux Australia in the [http://smc.monte.nsw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=11 Live Online Event]

• Representative at the [http://www.edexpo.info/ Sydney Education Expo], 2006

• Representative at [http://www.cebit.com.au/ CeBIT Sydney], 2006

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.

Ubuntu (2005 - present)

Refer to [https://launchpad.net/people/lordyama my Launchpad profile] for further detail.

• Active member of [http://ubuntu.org.au/ Ubuntu-Au] (including #ubuntu-au on irc.freenode.net)

• Adminstrator of the [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-en-gb Ubuntu English (United Kingdom) Translators] team

  • Founder of the [wiki:EnglishTranslation English Translation] initiative

  • Principal author of the [wiki:CategoryEnglishTranslation English Translation wiki pages]

  • Adminstrator of the [https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng ubuntu-l10n-eng] mailing list

• Contributor to the [wiki:LaptopTestingTeam Laptop Testing Team]:

  • Major contributor to the [wiki:LaptopTestingTeam/DellInspiron9400 Dell Inspiron 9400] page and original author of the [wiki:LaptopTestingTeam/DellInspiron3800 Dell Inspiron 3800] page

• Ubuntu-Au stand at linux.conf.au 2007 Open Day (see above)

• Bugs reporter and tester

Gentoo (2002 - present)

• 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 [http://www.pclinuxonline.com PCLinuxOnline]

• Administrator of the PCLinuxOnline and PCLinuxOS mailing list and Web forum

• Original author and maintainer, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS 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 [http://www.kde-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=Yama scripts and themes]

• Active member of mailing lists
• Bugs reporter and tester

Galeon

• Maintainer of [http://galeon.sourceforge.net/bookmarks/ 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 [wiki:EnglishTranslation 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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