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= Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda = | = Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda = | ||
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I'm Kalpa from Galle, Sri Lanka. | I'm Kalpa from Galle, Sri Lanka. | ||
Currently I'm a student of | Currently I'm a student of Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Besides that I'm involved in the lokalization project of OpenOffice. | ||
My first experience with GNU/Linux was with Red Hat 8. It was a three CD pack which I bought with zero knowledge about GNU or linux or even FOSS. I just wanted to give it a try and see what's inside. I couldn't install it properly as one of the CDs was cracked. The error was that it can't read some files and the whole installation process terminates. I had no idea what these files are related to. So what I did was I removed some packages with wild guesses and tried to install. I failed not once, twice but several times. Finally I could get it installed. Unfortunately there was no GUI (those files may be the ones that couldn't be read). I actually abandoned it there after, because I knew nothing to do with the CLI nor I had internet connection to explore. | My first experience with GNU/Linux was with Red Hat 8. It was a three CD pack which I bought with zero knowledge about GNU or linux or even FOSS. I just wanted to give it a try and see what's inside. I couldn't install it properly as one of the CDs was cracked. The error was that it can't read some files and the whole installation process terminates. I had no idea what these files are related to. So what I did was I removed some packages with wild guesses and tried to install. I failed not once, twice but several times. Finally I could get it installed. Unfortunately there was no GUI (those files may be the ones that couldn't be read). I actually abandoned it there after, because I knew nothing to do with the CLI nor I had internet connection to explore. | ||
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* Contributor at [http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ Fedora Sound SIG] | * Contributor at [http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ Fedora Sound SIG] | ||
* Fedora free media contributor | * Fedora free media contributor | ||
== Other activities in the FOSS world == | == Other activities in the FOSS world == | ||
* GNOME - Sinhala | * Sugar Activity packager | ||
* Open Office - Sinhala | * GNOME - Sinhala Localisation | ||
* KDE - Sinhala Localisation | |||
* Open Office - Sinhala Localisation | |||
* Sugar - Sinhala Localisation | |||
== Contact Me == | == Contact Me == | ||
* '''Email''' : callkalpa@fedoraproject.org / callkalpa@gmail.com | |||
callkalpa@fedoraproject.org | * '''IRC''' : callkalpa #fedora #hanthana #fedora-sound #sugar on freenode | ||
callkalpa@gmail.com | |||
== | == External Links == | ||
* [http://kalpapathum.blogspot.com Blog] | |||
* [http://thiraya.wordpress.com තිරය] | |||
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[[Category:Ambassadors from Sri Lanka]] | [[Category:Ambassadors from Sri Lanka]] | ||
Revision as of 03:24, 25 March 2012
Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
About Me
I'm Kalpa from Galle, Sri Lanka.
Currently I'm a student of Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Besides that I'm involved in the lokalization project of OpenOffice.
My first experience with GNU/Linux was with Red Hat 8. It was a three CD pack which I bought with zero knowledge about GNU or linux or even FOSS. I just wanted to give it a try and see what's inside. I couldn't install it properly as one of the CDs was cracked. The error was that it can't read some files and the whole installation process terminates. I had no idea what these files are related to. So what I did was I removed some packages with wild guesses and tried to install. I failed not once, twice but several times. Finally I could get it installed. Unfortunately there was no GUI (those files may be the ones that couldn't be read). I actually abandoned it there after, because I knew nothing to do with the CLI nor I had internet connection to explore.
Next as I remember was with Knoppix. I loved KDE a lot those days. Then came Ubuntu. It was Ubuntu 5.10 with 2CDs, one live and one to install. I was with Ubuntu for a couple of years and them moved to Fedora. During that season I started loving GNOME and still I'm a GNOME lover. So switching to Fedora was not that difficult. Of course Danishka Navin helped me a lot. Since then I'm here with Fedora.
Activities within Fedora
- FAS callkalpa
- Packages I maintain
- Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka
- Contributor at Fedora Sugar on a Stick
- Contributor at Fedora Sound SIG
- Fedora free media contributor
Other activities in the FOSS world
- Sugar Activity packager
- GNOME - Sinhala Localisation
- KDE - Sinhala Localisation
- Open Office - Sinhala Localisation
- Sugar - Sinhala Localisation
Contact Me
- Email : callkalpa@fedoraproject.org / callkalpa@gmail.com
- IRC : callkalpa #fedora #hanthana #fedora-sound #sugar on freenode