Praveen Arimbrathodiy visiting Rajasthan

[shreekant bohra]

Hello

Praveen Arimbrathodiy, whose full profile is at the end of this message, is currently on a country wide FOSS trip, where he goes to colleges, schools and talks about Free Software, Wikipedia, Creative Commons etc. and helps schools to setup Linux labs etc.

He is visiting Rajasthan very soon and interested in meeting with local Foss Community at LUG Bikaner and LUG Jaipur.

It would be great if we can organize a talk or meetup with him, it would be great way for us too to re-kindle our LUGs and get some activity going.

Please let me know if anyone currently in Bikaner or Jaipur would like to organize and co-ordinate.

Following is the brief profile of Praveen -

Debian Developer (maintains ruby gems), Swathanthra Malayalam
Computing contributor (we are probably the largest foss developer
community in India, we take care of Malayalam and other Indic language
support in Free Software including fonts, rendering engines,
translation, spell check, text to speech etc), mentor for Google
Summer of Code in 2007, work closely with student community across
various campuses encouraging and mentoring them to contribute to Free
Software, Pirate Cyclist (traveled across Kerala one month on a
bicycle promoting digital commons).

I go to schools setting up computer labs and teaching teachers and
kids computer basics. We maintain a community diaspora service at
poddery.com (we ran a crowd funding campaign on indiegogo.com) and
fight for privacy and internet freedom.

Worked with HP as Free Software consultant in Bangalore and Cupertino.
I was in Pune with Red Hat as Senior Systems Administrator for their
global engineering team.

I can take up any topics from computer basics at schools, introducing
Free Software to new people (including non technical crowd),
importance and getting involved in localization, introduction to
debian and contributing, maintaining debian packages, introduction to
processes and tools of free software contribution, mentoring specific
free software projects, and I have a new firefox os phone we could
hack on it. We can build maps using Open Street Map.

In short, I want more contributors to digital commons (wikipedia, free
software, creative commons, chamba project, open street map, open
educational resources etc) and seeking to find more people who connect
with the idea and want to work together.

Cheers

Shree Kant Bohra

Geekybuddha

[Gaurish Sharma]

This is something I would be interested in. how about we do a meetup this weekend, saturday?

--Gaurish

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[Rajesh Nandanwar]

I never had been to  any LUG meetings. Let me join too, would like to meet you guys. How about meetup near GT in case you guys are from Jaipur?


Warm regards;

Rajesh Nandanwar
Twitter: http://j.mp/WDoKZG | @rajesh_k_n
Skype: rajesh.nandanwar1

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From: con...@gaurishsharma.com
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:49:33 +0530
Subject: Re: [lugj] Praveen Arimbrathodiy visiting Rajasthan
To: lu...@googlegroups.com

[Gaurav Pareek]

This is great. Anyone in Jaipur who wishes to organize, please contact me at 9413911176 so that we can collaborate.

[Piyush Poddar]

Great Guys.

I would have looked forward to the meetup as well, but am travelling to Delhi this Saturday. Do keep us posted in terms of any fruitful agenda post the meetup guys....