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| Danishka Navin | |
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| [[Image:|thumb|center|Danishka Navin]] | |
| Personal Information | |
| Birthday: | 10th January |
| Home: | Sri Lanka |
| Fedora-specific Information | |
| FAS-Name: | snavin |
| Fedora-Mail: | snavin@fedoraproject.org |
| Miscellaneous Information | |
| Private Mail: | danishka@gmail.com |
| GPG-Key: | A7064AD2 |
| IRC: | hanthana on Libera.chat in |
| #fedora #fedora-ambassadors #fedora-l10n #hanthana | |
| Badges (53) | |
                                                    
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Danishka Navin is based in Sri Lanka and is a System Administrator/Engineer by profession and he do public speaking and conducting awareness of Free and Open Source Software. He found the [www.hanthana.org Hanthana | Linux Project], a fedora remix. It has been deployed in several government schools locally and downloded more than 15,000 copies globally.
In addition to Fedora, Danishka is working on several FOSS communities such as Mozilla, LibreOffice, Gnome, KDE and well known OLPC project.
Fedora Contribution
- Packaging Sugar Activities
- 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
- Mozilla Localizer, Mentor
- Sugar/OLPC - System Administrator, Localizer
- LibreOffice - Localization, Marketing
- Coordinator KDE Sinhala Localization Project
- Gnome Translation Project (GTP)
- Localized Debain Installer
Press
- Hanthana Linux release on SirasaTv news on 20th September 2009
- 'Open source opening doors to IT' - Sunday Times
- 'Reconstructing Sri Lanka’s education system with ‘Hanthana’' DailyFT article
- Live interview on Channel Eye (National English TV Channel) under Rise N Shine morning show
Certifications
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) - RHEL6 Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) - RHEL6