Profile

Independent software developer, consultant specializing in GNU/Linux and web based development.

I'm presently working with several firms, organizations in development and managerial roles, developing their on-line businesses and helping them improve their infrastructure.

I see people recognizing me more by my work surrounding Kannada language.

I have contributed as a developer to Evolution project. Hacking Evolution and GNOME was something I enjoyed the most for several months during the end of college term.

I am a sysop and bureaucrat at Kannada Wikipedia, and brought it up as an active editor for a long long time starting from its initial version in September 2004.

In 2005, I started Sampada, a community of Kannada speaking people which has become quite a familiar name these days and the server clocks more than 5 million hits each month.

I was a member in the Chapters commitee of Wikimedia Foundation.

(I had organized with the help of some of my friends, an event for Kannada Wikipedia during April 2005 in Bangalore, India which was useful in spreading the word about Kannada Wikipedia.)

I've now been coordinating efforts surrounding GNU/Linux Habba.

I'm also the founding member of Sampada Foundation.

I have also coordinated efforts surrounding Nira Nischinte - set of events to create awareness about sustainable water management and about using technology to spread awareness.

Interests: Free Software (free as in freedom), GNU/Linux, Cartooning, Web based development, Photography, Kannada language, Typography, Environmental issues, Management of Natural resources.

Citations in Press and Media

English
(list being built - incomplete as yet)

• "Kannada on your Computer, the easy way" - The Hindu, 15th April, 2008.
• Local language, global issues - Times of India, Sunday April 6, 2008.
• Font Hopes: Kannada Bloggers meet - Bangalore Mirror, March 17, 2008
• "Log out of Microsoft tie-up, say open software Advocates" - The Hindu, October 12, 2007
• "Chalk a blog" - Deccan Herald, June 10, 2007
• "Just drop by for a chat" - The Hindu, Nov 1, 2006.
  
• "Topics about Kannada, Karnataka on-line" - The Hindu, April 06, 2006
• "In our tongue" - The Hindu, March 30, 2006

Kannada

• ವಿಜಯ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ - ಗ್ನು/ಲಿನಕ್ಸ್ ಹಬ್ಬ ಕುರಿತ ಲೇಖನದಲ್ಲಿ - ೨೫ ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್, ೨೦೦೮
• ಬ್ಲಾಗಾಯಣ - ಸಂಡೇ ಟೈಮ್ಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡ - ೨೩, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೦೮
• ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈದೆಳೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಜೀವಜಾಲ - ಪ್ರಜಾವಾಣಿ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೧೭, ೨೦೦೮
• (ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಅಪೂರ್ಣ)

Television

• Interviewed for Kasturi Kannada Channel for the program "Jagruti" for two separate episodes relating to "Free Software (free as in freedom) and Kannada", "e-governance in Kannada". It was telecast in December 2007.

Radio

• Interviewed on Navilugari, Mysore Akashvani (24th April, 2007)
• Interviewed on Mangalore Akashvani (1st September, 2009)

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision" - Ayn Rand