#format wiki #language en || '''Contact Via''' || '''Contact Details''' || || '''Launchpad''': || [[https://launchpad.net/~amachu/|amachu]] || || '''IRC''': || amachu AT freenode Channel: #ubuntu-tam || || '''Email''': || amachu@ubuntu.com || || '''Location''': || Chennai, India || || '''Ubuntu Tamil Team Mailing Lists''' || [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-tam|l10n]] [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-tam|Tamil Nadu User's List]] || == At Ubuntu == [[attachment:Amachu]] Board Member of [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania | Asia Oceania Membership Board]] == Free Software == [[http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/tamil_perayam.php?page=ldc-il | SRM Tamil Computational Linguistics event]] [[http://titiandigital.blogspot.in/2011/09/ptd-discussion-with-open-source-experts.html | Titian Digital Event on Tamil Schools using Ubuntu LTSP, Malaysia]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2010-October/061606.html | Tamil Computing Kalasilangam University]] [[http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/tamil-users/2010-August/000017.html | Yavarkkum & MIT meet on Tamil Computing]] [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tam/2009-February/000784.html | Teerthamalai, Aroor]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/sfd-2008-special-free-software-philosophy-publication-in-tamil/ | Kattatra Menporul - Selected Essays of Richard M Stallman in Tamil]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/way-vision-journey-swadeshi-jagran-manch-talk-on-free-software/ | Swadeshi Jagran Manch - Way, Vision, Journey - Talk on Free Software & Tamil Computing Experiences]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-November/044818.html | Mayiladurai AVC FOSS Intro - Fedora Based]] [[http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-tamil/ | Initiated Debian Tamil List]] === Ubuntu Tamil Team === [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/fossconf-2009-ubuntu-tamil-team/ | FOSS Conf 2009, Madurai]] [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tam/2009-January/000783.html | Erode Nanda Arts College]] [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tam/2009-January/000779.html | Arunai Arts College, Tiruvannamalai]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/udhagmandalam-ubuntu/ | Intrepid Release event Udhagai]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/tiruppur-intrepid-lauch/ | Intrepid Release event Tiruppur]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-November/044583.html | National Conference on Free Software Cochin]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/intrepid-release-event-erode/ | Intrepid Release Event - Erode, Nov 2008]] [[http://kanimozhi.org.in/kanimozhi/?p=108 | Feel the Freedom - SASTRA, Sep 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/letters-to-be-made-better/ | Letters to be made better - Fonts workshop, Sep 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/insyder-2008-powered-by-free-software/ | Insider - 2008 - Rural development Conference at Arunai Engineering College - Thiruvannamalai, Aug 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/patent-manual-stake-holders-meet-chennai/ | Patent Manual Stake Holder's Meet - Chennai - 28 Aug 08]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/ubuntu-kaipidi-thozhargal-across-tamil-nadu/| Ubuntu kaippidi Thozargal - July 2008]] [[http://markmail.org/message/lvkt4oq3si5pi6l7|KDE 4.1 to have Tamil - May 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/guess-whatmmm-glad-to-share-with-you-all-that-we-are-going-to-have-two-new-team-leaders-for-ubuntu-tamil-team-its-thangamani-arun-httpswikiubuntucomthangam-from-chennai-india-who-will/| Successor Identification - April 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/ubuntu-cds-produced-locally/|Ubuntu CD Local Production - Jan 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/gnome-translations-upstream/|GNOME Translations Upstream - Sep 2008]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/vpp-services-now-available-from-ubuntu-tamil-team/|VPP Services for Ubuntu CD Distribution - June 2007]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/hello-world/|Initiated Ubuntu Tamil Team - June 2006]] == Sessions/ Events Conducted/ Participated == [[http://www.sarai.net/resolveuid/c2d0278ff08f68d18a2236781e726ad7 | Indlinux 2009 Meetup]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-March/040371.html | GNU/ Linux with Ubuntu Intro for http://cwdr.org.in members]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-February/039607.html | A day GNU/ Linux Intro with Ubuntu]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/foss-conf-rocked/ | FossConf, Chennai, India]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2007-September/036497.html | Manonmaniyam Sundaranar University, Thirunelveli, India]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2007-August/036388.html| SS Jain College, Chennai, India]] [[http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2007-September/036409.html| St. Joseph Engineering College, Avadi, Chennai, India]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/ubuntu-tamil-team-chennai-valai-padivar-sandhippu/|Chennai Bloggers Meet, India]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/beyond-boundaries/| South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Kalmunai, Sri Lanka]] [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/pudhucherry-bloggers-meet/|Puducherry Bloggers Meet, Puducherry, India]] == Fedora == * Was a Fedora Ambassodor until recently * [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tamil-users | Initiated & Administering the Tamil mailing list] == Translation Contribution/ Co-ordination == [[http://www.ubuntu-tam.org/avanam/nigazhchi/2008/feb/| Author & Maintainer of Ubuntu Basic Handbook in Tamil]] [[http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=ta| KDE Translation Contributor/ Co-ordinator for Tamil]] [[http://https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/wwwta/|GNU Website translation Contributor/ Co-ordinator for Tamil]] [[http://www.debian.org/index.ta.html|Debian Website/ Documentation Translation Co-ordinator for Tamil]] [[http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pgtranslation/messages/ta/| Postgres Translation Co-ordinator for Tamil]] [[http://amachu.net/download/hacker_agarathi/hackers_new.csv| Hacker's dictionary English - Tamil Glossary of GNU/ Linux Terminologies]] [[http://www.kanimozhi.kaniyam.com/01/ | Kanimozhi - Tamil Magazine to carry out FOSS News in Tamil]], Now [[http://kaniyam.com | Kaniyam]] == Immediate Future? == * A Tamil distro based on Fedora & KDE. * The distro to have Tamil Spell Checker in it & few new applications like Indic Onscreen keyboard for KDE, Tamil Dictionary. * If somebody could work together, a Kubutu derivative can also be obtained. == At Press == * Wrote for Sify Tamil Online Magazine on Free Software Philosophy - The links are now extinct following its shutdown == Other Career/ Professional Info == In quest of doing Business with FOSS in TamilNadu. Started working/ searching with/ for like minded people. If you can do join me :-) As Project Engineer of [[http://nrcfoss.org.in|NRCFOSS]] propagating Free and Open Source Software at Academic and other Levels in India for a year and two months. Two-and-Half years at a IT Solutions Company - L&T Infotech as Software Engineer in developing/ maintaining/ supporting applications on Lotus Notes Technology for a Semiconductor Major. Over half-an-year of Marketing Experience for Networking Solutions Provider - Precision Techserve Pvt Ltd.,. A Bachelor of Engineering passing out of College in 2004 from Electronics and Communication discipline. ---- || தேமதுரத் தமிழோசை உலகமெலாம் பரவும் வகை செய்தல் வேண்டும். || ---- CategoryHomepage