#format wiki #language en || '''Contact Via''' || '''Contact Details''' || || '''Launchpad''': || [[https://launchpad.net/~thangamani-arun|Arun Kumar- அருண் குமார்]] || || '''IRC''': || thangam_arun AT freenode Channel: #ubuntu-tam || || '''Email''': || thangam.arunx@gmail.com || || '''Location''': || Dharmapuri, Chennai, TamilNadu, India || || '''Ubuntu Tamil Team Mailing Lists''' || [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam|l10n]] [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-tam|Tamil Nadu User's List]] || == At Ubuntu == Co-Ordinated [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TamilTeam|Ubuntu Tamil Team]] for last two years(2008-2010). Moderated [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-tam|Ubuntu Tamil Users]] and [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam|Ubuntu Tamil Translators]] Mailing Lists === Ubuntu Tamil Team === [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-November/044583.html | National Conference on Free Software Cochin]] [[http://kanimozhi.org.in/kanimozhi | Writing FOSS articles in Tamil ]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/letters-to-be-made-better/ | Fonts workshop at NRC-FOSS - Sep 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/ubuntu-kaipidi-thozhargal-across-tamil-nadu/| Ubuntu kaippidi Thozargal - July 2008]] [[http://markmail.org/message/lvkt4oq3si5pi6l7|KDE 4.1 will have Tamil - May 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/guess-whatmmm-glad-to-share-with-you-all-that-we-are-going-to-have-two-new-team-leaders-for-ubuntu-tamil-team-its-thangamani-arun-httpswikiubuntucomthangam-from-chennai-india-who-will | Became Ubuntu Tamil Team Leader - April 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/gnome-translations-upstream/|GNOME Translations Upstream - Sep 2008]] == Translation Contribution == [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/libgnomeui/+pots/libgnomeui-2.0/ta/+filter?person=thangamani-arun | Gnome Translation ]] [[http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=ta| KDE Translation Contributor for Tamil]] [[http://kanimozhi.org.in | Kanimozhi - Tamil Magazine to carry out FOSS News in Tamil]] [[http://thangamaniarun.wordpress.com | Customising Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 Live CD's by adding Multimedia codec's, development packages and also added Tamil Language]] [[http://markmail.org/message/d7f656rew2jcvx5w | Ported Ubuntu - 9.10 on i.MX31 and i.MX51 freescale ARM development boards completely in Tamil - July 2009]] == Free Software == As part of [[http://fsftn.org|FSFTN]] Team, we organised two days [[http://thahadoorlug.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/fsftn-workshop-at-velalar-engg-college-erode-july-17-18th-2010/| FOSS workshop and given talk on Tamil Computing at Velalar Engineering College, Erode during 17-18 July 2010.]] As part of [[http://fsftn.org|FSFTN]] Team, we organised [[http://fsftn.org/content/regional-convention-tamil-nadu-2010|Regional convention]] on Free Software in March 2010. Associating with [[http://fsftn.org|FSFTN]] core team and [[http://groups.google.co.in/group/fsf_ssnce?hl=en|guiding students]] on [[http://fsftn.org/content/projects|GRASS-GIS/GTK]] projects. Conducted a [[http://fsftn.org/content/register-workshop-ssn-december-5th-and-6th-2009-0|workshop on Free Software]] at [[http://www.ssn.edu.in|SSN engineering college]] along with [[http://fsftn.org|FSF Tamil Nadu Team]] in December 2009. Participated in [[http://sites.google.com/site/freedomandsoftware/Home|FSF-TN regional convention]] held at Chennai in 2008. == Sessions Conducted/Events/Participated == [[http://foss-suvadugal.blogspot.com/2010/06/ubuntu-1004-release-party-by-kanchi-lug.html | Joined for Ubuntu -10.04 Release party at Kanchipuram by Kanchi-lug in June 2010 ]] [[http://foss-suvadugal.blogspot.com/2010/06/industrial-training-on-free-software.html | Organised a Industrial Training workshop on FOSS for students at SSN engineering college along with FSF-TN Team in June 2010]] [[http://foss-suvadugal.blogspot.com/2010/06/ubuntu-tamil-team-demo-stall-at.html | Ubuntu Demo to students and common public peoples at educational exhibition held in my home town Dharmapuri,Tamil Nadu in May 2010]] [[http://foss-suvadugal.blogspot.com/2009/10/learning-from-foss-expo-for-govt-hr-sec.html | Educational software's demo for Govt Schools students in Science City Chennai - Dec 2009]] [[http://foss-suvadugal.blogspot.com/2009/11/science-exhibition-and-education.html | Ubuntu Demo at Educational Exhibition for students Vivekananda School, Chennai in Nov 2009 ]] [[http://www.ilugc.in/content/sfd-2009-topics-and-volunteers|Celebrated Software Freedom Day]] as a [[http://www.ilugc.in | ILUG-C]] Volunteer at Chennai in Sep 2009 [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/foss-conf-rocked/ | FossConf, Chennai, India Mar 2008]] [[http://foss.in/2007/schedules | Participated in an International Free Open source Conference named as FOSS.IN, Bangalore, India in Dec 2007]] [[http://foss.in/2005/schedules | Participated in an International Free Open source Conference named as FOSS.IN, Bangalore, India in Dec 2005]] [[http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net/glugt_pics | My first FOSS event participation is "Hackers Crack Down-2k5" at NIT, Trichy in Jan 2005]] == Career/Professional Info == Currently working as Technical Consultant at SRM Technology/NEC Corp, Japan With 7+ Years of experience in IT Industry. Over 8 months worked as Technical Consultant at [[http://rib.srmuniv.ac.in/research.php?page=research_institute|SRM Research Institute, Bangalore, India]] Over two years of experience in Product development based on Embedded Linux at [[http://www.dyansys.com|Dyansys India Pvt Ltd]], Chennai as Research and Development Engineer Over half a year worked as Linux System Administrator at CFD CENTRE, [[http://www.iitm.ac.in | IIT Madras]], Chennai, India. Over one-and-half years of experience in ITES industry as Application Engineer at [[http://www.hovservices.com|HOV services Ltd]], Chennai, India. A Bachelor of Engineering passing out of College in 2006 from Computer Science and Engineering discipline from [[http://www.accet.in|A.C.Tech]], Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. CategoryHomepage