Srinivasa Ragavan
Name:
Srinivasa Ragavan
email:
sragavan novell com (or) sragavan gnome org
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Affiliation:
Novell, Inc
Summary
I love GNOME, free software and the community. I care for it. I'm contributing to GNOME for the last 6 years, by means of code, bugs, patches and features. I want to contribute more in non-code terms being in the board. I'm confident I can do it. Every GNOME board I have seen is awesome, unique and ever-improving. I'm sure, I would add my best to it.
Me ?
I'm 28 years old, computer science engineering graduate from India. Out of college, I joined Novell, and 8 years on, still there. First 2 years, I was working on BIND and Apache projects. Since 2003, I'm with GNOME, contributing to various GNOME projects and OpenOffice.org. Notably, I'm the project maintainer for Evolution (and friends) for the last ~3 years. I'm the author of Anjal, the mailer for Netbooks.
What have I done till now in GNOME?
I have been writing code for ~6 years. Mostly patches, bugs enhancements. I'm maintain Evolution. I have contributed to create a self-sustaining Evolution community. I have brought new module maintainers in Evolution, who were active contributing. I have streamlined patch reviews in Evolution, and enabled more contributions to Evolution .Evolution adds to at least 50 new contributors every major release. I have been the top patch reviewer in GNOME for the last two years. I'm currently writing (Anjal) new mail client for low-power, low memory devices and mobile devices. I manage an Open Source Internship program in India (through Novell & GNOME Bangalore chapter), which enable students to contribute to Open source projects in GNOME, Open Office, LDTP and Mono. I still mentor few students in contributing to GNOME and other open source projects.
What will I do if I'm on the board?
- The release team has done an amazing road map and schedule for GNOME3. I would stand by and support release team when required and then GNOME to have a successful in GNOME 3.0 release.
- We have an amazing Desktop, great hackers, a wonderful community and users. We have good marketing as well. But I feel, there a lot of room for improvement. I would give more focus on GNOME marketing.
- I love GNOME, the community and the users. I'm would keep my ears wide open and listen to everyone and be a people representative on the board.
- I would do my best for arranging hack fests, meetings and conferences.
- I was successful with the open source internship program that I started in India. It helped in adding a few consistent contributors to GNOME. But India has a lot more potential contributors to GNOME and free software. Being part of the board, I would strive hard towards making more GNOME contributors from India.
When I first told my friends, some of them asked me, 'Do I have time?'. Time is something that everyone lacks. I swear, I'll do better planning and dedicate necessary time for the board activities.
If I win, this will be my first term for the GNOME board. Vote for me.