Congrats Arun! :-)
Regards,
Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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> From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com>
>To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
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>Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 7:25 PM
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>Congrats Arun!
>
>
>(Not that he needs introduction on this list)
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com>
>Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:46 PM
>Subject: [Wikitech-l] Introduction - Arun
>To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
>Hi everyone,
>I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm Arun
>Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore, India and have joined as
>contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction designer
>along with Pau to improve the user experience of language tools and
>features.
>
>I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the
>openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during the
>Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6] where I proposed some of the
>first ideas for the Universal Language Selector widget with Brandon, with
>which we want to make language selection for anyone easy peasy.
>
>Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain my
>map contributions and the occasional headline for wikipedia [8], use only
>public transport[9] and traveling with my pocket camera[10].
>
>Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a
>project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I wont
>claim to know much, but I hope to make a difference in whichever way
>possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and learning from
>the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather and Pau to do the wonderful
>things that designers like to do .So keep the usability bugs coming :)
>-Arun
>
>[1a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad
>[1b] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team
>[2]
>http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?&wiki=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Planemad
>[3]
>http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4&lat=21.96627&lon=81.68268&layers=B0T&u=PlaneMad
>[4]
>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_Original_design
>[5] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf
>[6]
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-Wireframes1.pdf
>[7] http://bit.ly/timesofindia-osm
>[8]
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-india-cameron
>[9]
>http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223.ece
>[10] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html
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