Dear List, As discussed on the IRC,
I just happened to come across your site and was very impressed with the work you are doing and I am interestedto help out as a mentor for your GSoC ideas A validation system for translated strings based upon Translation Style Guides of language communities. I have worked a fair bit with rosetta on launchpad and few other tools but most of them require manual intervention as our dialects differ and writing styles differ esp wrt indic languages I think and secondly Speech based query and result retrieval system for Indian languages, would love to have this in ubuntu/debian repositories esp as it helps people like me who are disabled to have the indic touch to accessibility and I have used voxforge a fair bit. Here are my contributions to the opensource world in brief: Have been contributing to ubuntu linux community in various capacities as a developer, board member, former forums moderator, kannada translator and bug triage. Have uploaded around 1600 packages uploaded),Patching packages and programs, Debian style packaging,kernel patching, maintenance of packages, Scientific and engineering related packages quality assurance (For my QA and devel work in ubuntu please refer: https://edge.launchpad.net/~bhavi/+related-software) Having exposure of being a forum expert (Have answered around 4000 questions on the Launchpad forums) (For my forum work in ubuntu please refer: https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/~bhavi) >From the past 1.5 years attended the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu Precise Pangolin Release at Orlando Florida past year in October /November 2011 and Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal release in Oakland CA in May 2012 and Ubuntu Developer Summit -R in Copenhagen Denmark in October/November 2012 on sponsored invite. Serving on the Application Review Board in Ubuntu from October 2011 (https://launchpad.net/~app-review-board/+members#active) which is the governance board for letting apps in ubuntu through the ubuntu software center For my recent app review work in ubuntu please see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-August/author.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-September/author.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-October/author.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-November/author.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-December/author.html Now working towards automating app review process in ubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevUploadProcess where I integrated the app review board compliance checks into lintian (the default standards compliance tool in debian and ubuntu) Package here: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-app-review-contributors/+archive/ppa/+packages Served as a jury panel member in last year's app developer showdown in ubuntu http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/ where I reviewed and voted on 133 apps in a week.http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/apps/ (Most of them were python and quickly IDE apps) Serving as a local community council member which is the governance council for localised activities in ubuntu (See my election announcement here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-October/001662.html) Serving as a part of the developer advisory team in ubuntu where we reach out to interested people and make an effort to turn them into linux contributors/developers https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-developer-advisory-team/+members#active Frequent speaker on ubuntu/debian/foss through video conferencing/on the IRC (Internet relay chat) few links below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PBOsvkq-Nxo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXXyDN0CAJ0&feature=relmfu http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/01/29/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t17:00 http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/01/30/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t16:00 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/devweek1208/DevAdvisoryTeam https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/devweek1201/UpstreamVersionUpdate https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/devweek1201/WritingCrispChangelogs https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/devweek1107/MergingFromDebian Long standing contributor to MOTU Science https://edge.launchpad.net/~motuscience/+members#active maintainer of mobile-broadband-provider-info in debian http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mobile-broadband-provider-info which enables hot-plugging and automatic detection and configuration of subscribed network when a usb stick broadband modem is plugged in.(Functions as an addon to network manager through a wireless network database which has various International networks support) It has around 50k users around the world in debian and roughly the same in ubuntu as it gets copied into ubuntu repos from debian http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mobile-broadband-provider-info I live in Bangalore and will be available on evening times IST for any queries. Looking forward to hearing from you and working along with you in the great job you are doing India FTW! Regards, -- Bhavani Shankar Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com https://launchpad.net/~bhavi _______________________________________________ Project-ideas mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in
