best wishes....and tell me how i can contact Mr. Praveen. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> ഹൃദയം നിറഞ്ഞ ആശംസകള് പ്രവീണ്, ഇനിയും വലിയ നേട്ടങ്ങള് കൈവരിക്കട്ടെ > എന്നു് ആശംസിക്കുന്നു. > > സസ്നേഹം,, > ശശി > > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 10:36 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote: > > നമ്മുടെ പ്രവീണ് ഒരു ഒഫീഷ്യല് ഡെബിയന് ഡെവലപ്പറായിരിക്കുന്നു(DD) . > > കേരളത്തില് നിന്നുള്ള രണ്ടാമത്തെ ഡെബിയന് ഡെവലപ്പറാണ് പ്രവീണ്. > > അതായതു് ഒരു സോഷ്യല് കോണ്ട്രാക്റ്റിനെ അടിസ്ഥാനമാക്കി > > പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കുന്ന ഡെബിയന് പ്രൊജക്റ്റില് വോട്ടിങ്ങ് അവകാശമുള്ള ഫുള് > > മെമ്പര്ഷിപ്പാണ് ഡെബിയന് ഡെവലപ്പര് > > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc ഈ മാപ്പില് ഇപ്പോള് > പ്രവീണുമുണ്ട് . > > > > AM report for Praveen Arimbrathodiyil - > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2012/05/msg00044.html > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: AM report for Praveen Arimbrathodiyil > > From: Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 12:02:48 +0200 > > Message-id: <[email protected]> > > > > I recommend to accept Praveen Arimbrathodiyil as a Debian Developer. > > > > 1. Identification & Account Data > > -------------------------------- > > First name: Praveen > > Middle name: - > > Last name: Arimbrathodiyil > > Key fingerprint: 084623DBEEAB39E671665CCA3EB46FBCE0C010D0 > > Account: praveen > > > > 2. Background > > ------------- > > > > I started using computers when I was 13, we had PCs with DOS at school > > and we had to learn gwbasic! I came to know about GNU/Linux via news > > paper articles but I got to use it only when I started my engineering > > course. We had Red Hat Linux 9 on our college lab systems with > > monochrome terminals. I was system administrator of college lab by the > > time I was finishing my 4 year course and I got to try various > > distributions - slackware, suse and many more small ones. We had one > > debian server too in the lab. I was attracted by the Free Software > > philosophy and we started a GNU/Linux user group a foss event > > (http://fossmeet.in) in our college. I volunteered for http://foss.in > > and started organizing many small foss events and regular meeting of > > Free Software User Group Bangalore. We always focused our advocacy on > > students and got many contributors. > > > > Free Software contributions: > > I started my Free Software contributions via Debian Installer > > Malayalam translations. We reactivated Swathanthra Malayalam Computing > > (http://smc.org.in) and started maintaining translations of GNOME, KDE > > and other Free Software. As a community we worked on all aspects of > > language computing including fonts, complex text rendering, input > > methods and other tools like spell checkers, text to speech systems > > etc. We were part of Google Summer of Code in 2007 and I was a mentor > > (students I mentored that year became mentors for the next year!). I'm > > also helping with operations of Chamba Free/Open/Swathnthra/Libre/Mukt > > Cinema Project (http://chambaproject.in). > > > > Debian contributions: > > I started maintaining lekonee-gnome, a word press blog client written > > by my friend and colleague Kushal Das. I was always eager to try newer > > version of GNOME and KDE and so I started co-maintaining > > libdbusmenu-qt. I came to ruby packaging when I wanted to package > > diaspora federated social networking software > > (http://diasporaproject.org/) in debian. I was involved in many ruby > > gem transitions to new gem2deb based packaging helper. I have been > > giving many debian packaging sessions and helped organize many mini > > debian conferences across India (http://in2010.mini.debconf.org/and > > http://in2011.mini.debconf.org/). > > > > Motivation: > > My main motivation in Free Software is the spirit of building things > > we need as a community. Since I had so many things in my wishlist, I > > knew I have to get more people if I want to see all of them become a > > reality. So my motivation in contributing to Free Software is to get > > as many of my wishlist items a reality by working with people who > > share the same wishlist or at least some items in it. The reason I > > chose debian over other distributions is its volunteer and > > democratic/do-o-cratic nature. I wanted to spent my time with a > > community that would be an equal partner with Free Software community > > and I wanted my voice to be heard by the community based on my > > contributions (not to be rejected by people who are in positions of > > power, acquired by privileged processes not available to me). > > > > Focus: > > In debian I would like to focus on diaspora packaging, getting more > > contributors by organizing debian events and mentoring new contributors. > > > > > > -- > > "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and > > 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from > > other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth > > > > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > http://swatantryam.blogspot.com > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Thanks&Regards* ********************** *Manoj k Bangalore.* * ***************************************************************************************** * "I will not say that i have failed a thousand times.I will say i have found a thousand ways that will cause failure" -- "Freedom is the only law". 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