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= Kalpa | {{User:Cassmodiah/Infobox2 | ||
|REAL-NAME= Kalpa Welivitigoda | |||
|birthday= 29th November | |||
|HOME= Sri Lanka | |||
|image= Kalpa-welivitigoda.jpg | |||
|FAS-NAME= callkalpa | |||
|pmail= callkalpa@gmail.com | |||
|homepage= www.kalpapathum.blogspot.com | |||
|jabber= callkalpa@gmail.com | |||
|twitter= callkalpa | |||
|irc-nick= callkalpa | |||
|irc-channels= #fedora #fedora-devel #fedora-ambassadors #hanthana | |||
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== | = Kalpa Welivitigoda = | ||
I am a software engineer in profession interested in using and contributing to FOSS. I started my contributions with localization efforts and then moved to contributing with code. Apart from Fedora I have also contributed to other projects such as Sugar Labs, Mozilla, Open Office/Libre Office, GNOME, KDE. | |||
Following is a bit from history, | |||
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. | ||
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 | 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 then 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. | ||
== | == Fedora Contribution == | ||
* | * Package Maintainer ([https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/callkalpa Packages I maintain]) | ||
* Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka | * Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka | ||
Revision as of 08:42, 28 February 2017
| Kalpa Welivitigoda | |
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| Personal Information | |
| Born: | 29th November in |
| Home: | Sri Lanka |
| Fedora-specific Information | |
| FAS-Name: | callkalpa |
| Fedora-Mail: | callkalpa@fedoraproject.org |
| Miscellaneous Information | |
| Private Mail: | callkalpa@gmail.com |
| IRC: | callkalpa on Libera.Chat, in: |
| #fedora #fedora-devel #fedora-ambassadors #hanthana | |
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Kalpa Welivitigoda
I am a software engineer in profession interested in using and contributing to FOSS. I started my contributions with localization efforts and then moved to contributing with code. Apart from Fedora I have also contributed to other projects such as Sugar Labs, Mozilla, Open Office/Libre Office, GNOME, KDE.
Following is a bit from history,
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 then 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.
Fedora Contribution
- Package Maintainer (Packages I maintain)
- Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka