Vidya Ayer

Hails from India and is an Ubuntu user since Warty.
She currently volunteers for Ubuntu, Ubuntu-Women, Linuxchix, Debian-Women, KDE-Women and DMOZ.

IRC : svaksha @irc.freenode.net, svaksha @irc.linuxchix.org, svaksha @irc.gnome.org
Email : svaksha # gmail.com
Launchpad Profile
Ubuntu Wiki wikipage
Blog : svaksha.com

FOSS & Ubuntu Volunteer Experience

Admins the Newchix and Job-posts mailing lists for LinuxChix, an online community for women "using" Linux.
Also involved in the LinuxChix-India local community. The group is just growing wings and its fun to start-up something new.

Editor at Dmoz, MusicMoz since 2003.
Currently restricted to anything related to Ubuntu, Libre software for music and audio, and Sanskrit.

Founded Ubuntu-Women - Launchpad in 2005/6.
Designed, created, wrote and implemented the contents for static and wiki pages for the new website while migrating from the old wiki page.
Maintains the website and admins the UW mailing list.
Co-ordinates the mentoring project with Elizabeth Krumbach and guides new users on how to contribute to Ubuntu. Also wrote the Mentoring FAQ, IRC guidelines, and many other UW Wiki pages.

Editor at the Ubuntu Fridge - Launchpad
Hopes to stock the Fridge with news, articles, and other bytes flowing in from the Ubuntu community.
Plans to synchronise news with grassroots marketing, events, advocacy, team collaboration, and other sound bytes.

MarketingTeam - Launchpad
Active on the list and assists Marketing team members in planning and when required.
UbuntuMagazine : Created a Milestones specification for the Ubuntu Magazine which may now be frozen with the Fridge.

Sanskrit Translators Launchpad
Co-wrote a Sanskrit (SA) language locale with Christian Perrier (bubulle), which awaits inclusion in the Debian package : belocs-locales-data and also in package: locales (version: 2.3.5-6).
Translates for the Sanskrit localisation of packages in Ubuntu. Plans to increase volunteer translators for Sanskrit, a classical Indian language. Main impediments are its classical roots, lack of regular usage. Low, almost zero commercial value has also contributed to the low interest and is considered a dead language by many people.

Various contributions in different Wiki's, community groups/teams and Ubuntu mailing lists.
Time-permitting, hopes to pitch in with tasks and be useful to the Motu's by trying to learn about packaging, testing, other technical details about Ubuntu, its relation with Debian and how they work in tandem.
Advocates Ubuntu awareness whenever possible by distributing surplus Hoary, Breezy and Dapper CD's to many people locally and found students using it more than engineers in the IT industry.