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= Danishka Navin =
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= Danishka Navin =
Danishka Navin is a Systems Engineer based in Sri Lanka and he do public speaking, community building/development and conducting awareness of Free and Open Source Software.
In 2009 he found the [http://www.hanthana.org Hanthana Linux Project], a Fedora remix. It has been deployed in several government schools locally and download over [http://sourceforge.net/projects/hanthana/files/stats/map?dates=2009-09-13%20to%202050-12-31 50,000 copies globally]. The Hanthana Linux Project let local community to contribute back to global FOSS movement under Hanthana Linux Project. Several school students, teachers, university students and other users started contributing by spreading word, finding bugs, compiling documentation. Some of them have been filled bugs/issues against the upstream project (such as Fedora, LibreOffice, etc) after knowing the proper bug filling mechanism.
In addition to Fedora, Danishka is working on several FOSS communities such as Mozilla, LibreOffice, Gnome, KDE, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Sugarlabs Foundation.


I am the Language Maintainer for Fedora Sinhala (The National language of the Sri Lanka) and also an active contributor to the Gnome Translation Project (GTP), Open Office and Mozilla. And also I am the coordinator of the KDE Sinhala Team. Moreover I am working as a Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka and as well as contributing to Fedora Free-Media project.
Moreover he is working on deploying school ICT labs in financially deprecated schools, under [http://school.hanthana.org Hanthana School Labs Project].


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== Contact ==
* Package Maintainer - [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/snavin packages maintain]
* '''Email''': snavin [AT] fedoraproject [DOT] org   or  danishka [AT] gmail [DOT] com 
* Fedora SIG Member - working for the Fedora Education Spin
* '''IRC''':  hanthana  #fedora-admin, #fedora-l10n, #Sinhala-l10n (irc.freenode.net)
** Fedora Education Spin
* '''GPG key''': A7064AD2
** Fedora Spin SIG
* '''Fedora Account''': snavin
* Localization - Fedora Sinhala Language Coordinator
* '''Blog''': [http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/ | http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/]
* Fedora [[Ambassadors]] for Sri Lanka
* Program Coordinator: Fedora Free-Media project Sri Lanka


== Profile ==
== Other FOSS Activities/Contributions ==


* Fedora SIG Member - working for the Fedora Education Spin
* Sugar/OLPC - Localizer
* Language Maintainer - Fedora Sinhala
* LibreOffice - Localization, Marketing
* Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka
* Program Coordinator: Fedora Free-Media project Sri Lanka
* Mozilla Browser/toolkit owner
* Coordinator KDE Sinhala Localization Project
* Coordinator KDE Sinhala Localization Project
* Gnome Translation Project (GTP)
* Gnome Translation Project (GTP)
* Open Office - Sinahala localization
* Localized Debain Installer
 
== Project ==
 
=== Hanthana Linux School Labs Project ===
 
Hanthana Linux School Labs project is another initiative to deploy FOSS driven school ICT labs in rural areas. These labs are deployed with the help of community.
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTN-6e0Sa_Q Watch this documentary on first pilot project ] [with English subtitles]
 
== Press ==
 
=== TV Programs ===
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxoHfNusrvg Live interview on Channel Eye (National English TV Channel) under Rise N Shine morning show]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpMYZXFa0jc Hanthana Linux release on SirasaTV news]  on 20th September 2009
 
=== News Paper Articles ===
* [http://sundaytimes.lk/110731/Magazine/sundaytimesmirror_05.html 'Open source opening doors to IT']  - Sunday Times
* [http://www.ft.lk/2012/05/12/reconstructing-sri-lankas-education-system-with-hanthana/ 'Reconstructing Sri Lanka’s education system with ‘Hanthana’'] - DailyFT article
 
 




[[Category:Ambassadors from Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Ambassadors from Sri Lanka]]

Revision as of 13:39, 14 August 2019

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Personal Information
Birthday: {{{birthday}}}
Home: Sri Lanka
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name: snavin
Fedora-Mail: snavin@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail: snavin@fedoraproject.org
GPG-Key: A7064AD2
IRC: hanthana on Libera.chat in
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Danishka Navin

Danishka Navin is a Systems Engineer based in Sri Lanka and he do public speaking, community building/development and conducting awareness of Free and Open Source Software.

In 2009 he found the Hanthana Linux Project, a Fedora remix. It has been deployed in several government schools locally and download over 50,000 copies globally. The Hanthana Linux Project let local community to contribute back to global FOSS movement under Hanthana Linux Project. Several school students, teachers, university students and other users started contributing by spreading word, finding bugs, compiling documentation. Some of them have been filled bugs/issues against the upstream project (such as Fedora, LibreOffice, etc) after knowing the proper bug filling mechanism.

In addition to Fedora, Danishka is working on several FOSS communities such as Mozilla, LibreOffice, Gnome, KDE, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Sugarlabs Foundation.

Moreover he is working on deploying school ICT labs in financially deprecated schools, under Hanthana School Labs Project.

Fedora Contribution

  • Package Maintainer - packages maintain
  • Fedora SIG Member - working for the Fedora Education Spin
    • Fedora Education Spin
    • Fedora Spin SIG
  • Localization - Fedora Sinhala Language Coordinator
  • Fedora Ambassadors for Sri Lanka
  • Program Coordinator: Fedora Free-Media project Sri Lanka

Other FOSS Activities/Contributions

  • Sugar/OLPC - Localizer
  • LibreOffice - Localization, Marketing
  • Coordinator KDE Sinhala Localization Project
  • Gnome Translation Project (GTP)
  • Localized Debain Installer

Project

Hanthana Linux School Labs Project

Hanthana Linux School Labs project is another initiative to deploy FOSS driven school ICT labs in rural areas. These labs are deployed with the help of community.

Watch this documentary on first pilot project [with English subtitles]

Press

TV Programs

News Paper Articles

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