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Kalpa Welivitigoda
Kalpa Welivitigoda
Kalpa Welivitigoda
Kalpa Welivitigoda
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
Badges (59)
If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Bona Fide You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Involvement Ambassador Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Embryo Tadpole Egg Don't Call it a Comeback Paranoid Panda Crypto Badger Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Junior Editor Secretary General Take this and call me in the morning Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Senior Badger (Badger II) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Baby Badger Singapore FAD 2015 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) What goes around comes around (Karma I) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) Adult Frog Mugshot You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands The cat came back... Tadpole with Legs Origin Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Speak Up! Froglet What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Helping Hand
 


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

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