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Indian Fedora Contributors
This is a place for recognizing, keeping track of Indian contributors to Fedora, encourage more co-ordination, mentoring and participation in regional events among other activities. Regardless of what your contributors are, feel free to sign up in this page and provide more details.
| Name | Role | Location |
|---|---|---|
| A. Mani | Testing, QA, Documentation | Kolkata |
| AmitakhyaPhukan | Language Maintainer (Assamese) | Pune |
| AniPeter | Language Maintainer (Malayalam) | Pune |
| Ankit Patel | Language Maintainer (Gujarati), Fedora Localization Project Admin | Pune |
| Arindam Ghosh | Package Maintainer | Durgapur |
| Arun S.A.G | Package Mainatiner | Chennai |
| AshokDas | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| AnkurSinha | Package Maintainer | Manipal |
| Debarshi Ray | Package Maintainer | Helsinki |
| FelixIyadurai | Language Maintainer (Tamil) | Pune |
| Hiemanshu Sharma | Web Programmer and Developer | Bangalore |
| HuzaifaSidhpurwala | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| IndranilDasGupta | Mirror manager | Kolkata |
| JaswinderSingh | Language Maintainer (Punjabi) | Pune |
| Jitesh Shah | Fedora-ARM Maintainer | Pune |
| Kedar Sovani | Fedora-ARM Maintainer | Pune |
| KushalDas | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| MadhavprasadPai | Package Maintainer | Delhi |
| ManojKumarGiri | Language Maintainer (Oriya) | Pune |
| Minto Joseph | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| Naveen Kumar | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| ParagNemade | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| Prasad J Pandit | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| Prabin Kumar Datta | Web Developer, Docs Project, BugZappers | Kolkata |
| Pravin Satpute | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| Rahul Bhalerao | Package Maintainer | Calicut |
| RahulSundaram | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| RajeshRanjan | Language Maintainer (Hindi & Maithili) | Pune |
| Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury | Package Maintainer | Bangalore |
| Runa Bhattacharjee | Language Maintainer (Bengali-India), FWN Beat Writer | Pune |
| Rakesh Pandit | Package Maintainer, Developer | Pune |
| Shakthi Kannan | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| ShankarPrasad | Language Maintainer (Kannada) | Pune |
| Shreyank Gupta | Developer | Pune |
| Steven Fernandez | Package Maintainer and gyaan giver | Jaipur |
| Subhransu Behera | Package Maintainer | Pune |
| SubhodipBiswas | Package Maintainer | Durgapur |
| SusmitShannigrahi | Infrastructure, Mirror manager | Kolkata |
| Saleem Ansari | Developer | Pune |
Ambassadors
Local contacts for Fedora CD/DVD
In addition to FreeMedia program, find and contact your nearest person from this list to get Fedora CD/DVD.
Community Activities
Currently managed by the following team members:
What are we doing?
From FY09
Focus Points: People, Presence, and Infrastructure.
- Presence at community events
- Visibility to Indian contributors and associated metrics
- Promote Ambassadors
- Campus and institutional tie-ups
- More mentors
- Get more Indian Mirrors
- Manage the Indian localized spins
- FreeMedia Project
- Swag - Live CD, stickers etc and use them for release events
- Recording community presentations and events
- Regular and informal meetings
- IRC sessions and classes
- FUDCon in India at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008
- Regional and local language press
- Nurture and encourage community presence external to and within Red Hat India
For FY10
Focus Points: People, Education and Mentoring
- Presence at community events
- A FAD in each quarter (minimum target)
- Providing guidance and mentors for new Ambassadors
- Consistent usage of IRC towards providing a 'Classroom' session
- Nurture, build and encourage a community message around a select group of projects
- Investigate and build new areas of contributions for participants to the project
- Investigate and build upon the success provided by FEL to make in roads into Education
- Workshops for students towards using Fedora as a development platform