User:Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram

• Email: sundaram AT fedoraproject DOT org
• IRC: mether. Hang out in #fedora-ask #fedora-qa #fedorabot #fedora-devel #fedora-admin
• GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xB6AE45EEC6F5D18C
• Fedora Account: sundaram
• Blog Post: http://mether.wordpress.com/
• Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/rahulsundaram
• Twitter : http://twitter.com/rahulsundaram (reposted via identi.ca)

Brief Profile

• Fedora contributor - packaging, documentation, events, marketing and community management.
• Maintainer/Co-maintainer of over 100 Fedora packages in the official repository
• Lead of Ask Fedora - http;//ask.fedoraproject.org community knowledge base and support forum
• Organizer of FUDCon Pune in 2011
• Frequent international public speaker on Free and open source softrware including a keynote in foss.in, several presentations in FUDCon Boston 2007, 2008 and Virginia in 2012 and several others.
• Founding member of the first public Fedora Board
• In the past, Red Hat OLPC team information and community wrangler.
• Fedora Ambassador for India and a member of the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.
• Ex- Linux Documentation Project volunteer
• Mozilla Tamil translator in 2002.

71 Badges

Spins

I originally created and maintained the Fedora Games spin , Fedora Xfce spin and some Indian Language spins of Fedora.

Packages I Maintain/Co-maintain

• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/sundaram

Articles

Muktware

• Btrfs and the future Linux filesystems

Red Hat Magazine

• Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4
• AbiWord Team Inteview
• Introducing Fedora Core 6 - Part 2
• Inside Fedora Core 6 - Part 1
• Inside Fedora Core 5

Linux For You

• Now, Package Management is Intelligent by Design January 01, 2009 Page: 38-41. Viewable at http://www.linuxforu.com/previews/now-package-management-is-intelligent-by-design/
• Freedom Software: How to Contribute : September 1, 2003 Page: 99
• Top 10 Freedom Software Myths : July 1, 2003 Page: 91-92
• Popular Linux Packages : April 1, 2003 Page: 25-26
• Linux@Home February 1, 2003 Page: 14-16

Source: http://www.lfymag.com/archives.asp?author=Rahul+Sundaram&month=Select+Month&year=Select+Year&total=1&id=13&Submit=Search

Linux Identity Magazine

• Fedora 11 Reigns - July 2009 - http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/

Media References

• http://blue-gnu.biz/content/importance_039_completely_libre_039_distributions
• http://lwn.net/Articles/242051/
• http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/07/05/03/1711201.shtml?tid=111
• http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/1646249
• http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070212
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive - Linux For You December 2006 Articles
• http://news.com.com/Open+source+casts+new+mold+for+type+design/2100-7344_3-6092398.html

Events and Conference Reports

I love to attend conferences and any public technology gathering to meet and discuss with people on Linux and other Free software.

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F11_Pune_India
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006/Report

Fedora Documentation

I have contributed extensively to Fedora release notes and I am a editor and writer of the Overview beat in the release notes.

I also maintain the official Fedora FAQ and wrote and maintain the Overview , contributions Red Hat contributions , security features, Ext4 in Fedora 11, Fedora 11 FAQ, and Fedora 7 FAQ pages.

Fedora Weekly News

I am a editor and lead writer of the "Ask Fedora" Column in Fedora Weekly News reports

Fedora Notes

My Fedora related notes and TODO list are available here

Projects

• PackageMaintainers
• Marketing
• Ambassadors Ex-Steering Committee member and Ambassador - India
• Bug Triaging
• Documentation - release notes and wiki
• Mentors - Docs, Bug triaging