Speakers
Aditya Patawari
I am Aditya Patawari, currently working as Linux System Admin at Directi Internet Solutions. I play around with EL, Puppet, cloud both as a part of my work and as a hobby. Red Hat was my first distro when I was in class XI, after that I have tried a number of distros and finally I am stuck with fedora as my main OS. I love tux and kde. I am a die hard linux supporter and an open source developer.
Christoph Wickert
Christoph is a long-term contributor of Fedora and member in several groups of the project such as the packagers, ambassadors and various special interest groups (Spins, KDE, LXDE, Xfce). He was member of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) for two years and now serves the Fedora Board and as Chair of the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo).
Danishka Navin
Danishka Navin is a Fedora contributor who based in Sri Lanka. He have been contributing to Fedora Project for more than five years.
Localization, Marketing are main areas of his contribution and also he found the Hanthana Linux Project (www.hanthana.org) in 2009 which is Fedora remix and it running in several schools in Sri Lanka.
More over he is an active contributor of Mozilla, Gnome, LibreOffice and Sugar Desktop.
Public Profile: http://lk.linkedin.com/in/danishkanavin
Goh Choon Ming
Choon Ming hails from Malaysia where he currently resides. By profession he is a system administrator but by interest he dwells into security and an avid food traveler. Hates traditional 9 to 5 jobs and prefers to work whenever his mood permits it. He mainly focuses on cloud technologies, CDN and puppet configuration management of late. When not working on anything tech related, he prefers to explore new places for food and read books in a quiet and serene atmosphere or listen to oldies music.
Izhar Firdaus
Izhar, also known as KageSenshi, is a System Engineer and co-founder of Inigo Consulting Sdn Bhd, a local Plone and Zope support and development company. One of the active Fedora Ambassador in Malaysia, he have been evangelizing Free and Open Source softwares since his junior years at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. Besides Fedora, he is also an avid developer and enthusiast of Python programming language, Plone CMS and Zope Component Architecture.
Joshua Wulf
jwulf is an Information Architect at Red Hat. I started using Fedora Core at release 1.92, and joined Red Hat shortly after as a support tech. I used to host the "Fedora Reloaded" podcast with wmealing. I moved to the documentation division and wrote the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Installation Guide. I've been working on moving Red Hat to topic-based authoring over the past year and a half.
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Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
I am Kalpa Welivitigoda currently an undergraduate at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am an ambassador and a package maintainer for Fedora. I am a contributor of Hanthana Linux which is a remix of Fedora and have been involved with localising several projects including GNOME, KDE, Sugar, OpenOffice
and Firefox. Recently I started contributing to Sugar, basically packaging sugar activities for Fedora and for Sugar on a Stick (SoaS). I prefer developing in python.
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Khairil Yusof
Co-founder of Inigo Consulting an employee owned Plone, Zope and open source development company.
In my spare time, I'm working with a group of other Malaysian developers on the Sinar Project, an open source effort to empower citizens with more information by making government information more transparent and easily accessible through current web and mobile tools.
I also have a keen interest in the different fields of design.
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Praveen Kumar
I'm Praveen Kumar, I contribute to fedora as a packager, During college days I was a representative of a Linux User Group, we organized a number of workshop on FOSS and teacher training program. Currently I am working on renaming django packages for devel (f-18) and fedora-tour.
Soumya Kanti Chakraborty
A fedora ambassador and a contributor. As a fedora ambassador always spread the word of Fedora. Also I do packaging stuffs for Fedora. As a moderator of Ask Fedora, always try and help new and experienced Fedora users and developers regarding issues in my knowledge. In process of getting along with the design team for helping them in designing logos.
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TingChong Victor Yap
Solution Architect and Software Developer providing open source software migration solutions for creative (2D/3D animation) production pipeline. Lead Organizer of Blender User Group of Singapore. Co-Admin of Blender Knowledge Base and Blender3D User Group Malaysia on Facebook.com.
