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A Tamil distro based on Fedora & KDE.
The distro to have Tamil Spell Checker in it & few new applications like Indic Onscreen keyboard for KDE, Tamil Dictionary.
If somebody could work together, a Kubutu derivative can also be obtained.

At Press

Wrote for Sify Tamil Online Magazine on Free Software Philosophy - The links are now extinct following its shutdown

Other Career/ Professional Info

Current

Founder, The Root at Amachu Infrasoft Services (http://amachu.com), offering FOSS IT Infrastructure Software Services on FOSS, June 2010 till now.
Founder, Chairman of Yavarkkuma Menporul Arakkatalai – A foundation to propagate Free Software ideology & proliferate its usage and development across Tamilnadu since December 2009.
Co-ordinator of Ubuntu Tamil Team , Ubuntu Member (Since October 2006), Board Member to its Asia Oceania Membership Board.
Co-ordinator of ILUGC Tamil Wing – The prominent LUG of Chennai.

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-== At Ubuntu ==
+== Fedora ==
+[[File:Amachu.jpg|thumb|250px|alt=Sri Ramadoss M|Amachu]]
-Board Member of [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania Asia Oceania Membership Board]
+* Was a Fedora Ambassodor until recently
+* [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tamil-users Initiated & Administering the Tamil mailing list]
 == Free Software ==
-[SRM Tamil Computational Linguistics event http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/tamil_perayam.php?page=ldc-il]
+[http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/tamil_perayam.php?page=ldc-il SRM Tamil Computational Linguistics event]
 [http://titiandigital.blogspot.in/2011/09/ptd-discussion-with-open-source-experts.html Titian Digital Event on Tamil Schools using Ubuntu LTSP, Malaysia]
 [http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2010-October/061606.html Tamil Computing Kalasilangam University]
+[http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/tamil-users/2010-August/000017.html Yavarkkum & MIT meet on Tamil Computing]
 [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tam/2009-February/000784.html Teerthamalai, Aroor]
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 [http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-November/044818.html Mayiladurai AVC FOSS Intro - Fedora Based]
-=== Ubuntu Tamil Team ===
+[http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-tamil/ Initiated Debian Tamil List]
+== Ubuntu Tamil Team ==
 [http://amachu.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/fossconf-2009-ubuntu-tamil-team/ FOSS Conf 2009, Madurai]
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 [http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/hello-world/|Initiated Ubuntu Tamil Team - June 2006]
+== At Ubuntu ==
+Board Member of [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania Asia Oceania Membership Board]
 == Sessions/ Events Conducted/ Participated ==
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 == Translation Contribution/ Co-ordination ==
-[http://www.ubuntu-tam.org/avanam/nigazhchi/2008/feb/| Author & Maintainer of Ubuntu Basic Handbook in Tamil]
+[http://www.ubuntu-tam.org/avanam/nigazhchi/2008/feb/ Author & Maintainer of Ubuntu Basic Handbook in Tamil]
-[http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=ta| KDE Translation Contributor/ Co-ordinator for Tamil]
+[http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=ta KDE Translation Contributor/ Co-ordinator for Tamil]
-[http://https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/wwwta/|GNU Website translation Contributor/ Co-ordinator for Tamil]
+[http://https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/wwwta/ GNU Website translation Contributor/ Co-ordinator for Tamil]
-[http://www.debian.org/index.ta.html|Debian Website/ Documentation Translation Co-ordinator for Tamil]
+[http://www.debian.org/index.ta.html Debian Website/ Documentation Translation Co-ordinator for Tamil]
-[http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pgtranslation/messages/ta/| Postgres Translation Co-ordinator for Tamil]
+[http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pgtranslation/messages/ta/ Postgres Translation Co-ordinator for Tamil]
-[http://amachu.net/download/hacker_agarathi/hackers_new.csv| Hacker's dictionary English - Tamil Glossary of GNU/ Linux Terminologies]
+[http://amachu.net/download/hacker_agarathi/hackers_new.csv Hacker's dictionary English - Tamil Glossary of GNU/ Linux Terminologies]
 [http://www.kanimozhi.kaniyam.com/01/ Kanimozhi - Tamil Magazine to carry out FOSS News in Tamil], Now [http://kaniyam.com Kaniyam]
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 == Immediate Future? ==
-[http://amachu.net/blog/?p=164|Publication of "Payanarin Paarvaiyil" - a Handbook on Ubuntu]
+* A Tamil distro based on Fedora & KDE.
+* The distro to have Tamil Spell Checker in it & few new applications like Indic Onscreen keyboard for KDE, Tamil Dictionary.
-[MOTU]
+* If somebody could work together, a Kubutu derivative can also be obtained.
-[http://nltk.sourceforge.net/index.php/Ta:Preface| Natural Language Toolkit for Tamil also]
 == At Press ==
-[http://tamil.sify.com/columns/moreheadlines.php?ctid=2&cid=14516080|Writings for Sify Tamil Online Magazine on Free Software Philosophy]
+* Wrote for Sify Tamil Online Magazine on Free Software Philosophy - The links are now extinct following its shutdown
 == Other Career/ Professional Info ==
-In quest of doing Business with FOSS in TamilNadu. Started working/ searching with/ for like minded people. If you can do join me :-)
+=== Current ===
-As Project Engineer of [http://nrcfoss.org.in|NRCFOSS] propagating Free and Open Source Software at Academic and other Levels in India for a year and two months.
-Two-and-Half years at a IT Solutions Company - L&T Infotech as Software Engineer in developing/ maintaining/ supporting applications on Lotus Notes Technology for a Semiconductor Major.
-Over half-an-year of Marketing Experience for Networking Solutions Provider - Precision Techserve Pvt Ltd.,.
-A Bachelor of Engineering passing out of College in 2004 from Electronics and Communication discipline.
+* Founder, The Root at Amachu Infrasoft Services (http://amachu.com), offering FOSS IT Infrastructure Software Services on FOSS, June 2010 till now.
+* Founder, Chairman of Yavarkkuma Menporul Arakkatalai – A foundation to propagate Free Software ideology & proliferate its usage and development across Tamilnadu since December 2009.
+* Co-ordinator of Ubuntu Tamil Team , Ubuntu Member (Since October 2006), Board Member to its Asia Oceania Membership Board.
+* Co-ordinator of ILUGC Tamil Wing – The prominent LUG of Chennai.

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Latest revision as of 18:54, 28 February 2012

Contents

Fedora

Free Software

Ubuntu Tamil Team

At Ubuntu

Sessions/ Events Conducted/ Participated

Translation Contribution/ Co-ordination

Immediate Future?

At Press

Other Career/ Professional Info

Current