User:Snavin

Danishka Navin
[[Image:|thumb|center|Danishka Navin]]
Personal Information
Birthday:	10th January
Home:	Sri Lanka
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name:	snavin
Fedora-Mail:	snavin@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail:	danishka@gmail.com
GPG-Key:	A7064AD2
IRC:	hanthana on Libera.chat in
	#fedora #fedora-ambassadors #fedora-l10n #hanthana
Badges (53)

Danishka Navin is based in Sri Lanka and is a System Administrator/Engineer by profession and he do public speaking and conducting awareness of Free and Open Source Software. He found the [www.hanthana.org Hanthana | Linux Project], a fedora remix. It has been deployed in several government schools locally and downloded more than 15,000 copies globally.

In addition to Fedora, Danishka is working on several FOSS communities such as Mozilla, LibreOffice, Gnome, KDE and well known OLPC project.

Fedora Contribution

• Packaging Sugar Activities
• Fedora SIG Member - working for the Fedora Education Spin
  • Fedora Education Spin
  • Fedora Spin SIG
• Localization - Fedora Sinhala Language Coordinator
• Fedora Ambassadors for Sri Lanka
• Program Coordinator: Fedora Free-Media project Sri Lanka

Other

• Mozilla Localizer, Mentor
• Sugar/OLPC - System Administrator, Localizer
• LibreOffice - Localization, Marketing
• Coordinator KDE Sinhala Localization Project
• Gnome Translation Project (GTP)
• Localized Debain Installer

Press

TV Programs

• Live interview on Channel Eye (National English TV Channel) under Rise N Shine morning show
• Hanthana Linux release on SirasaTV news on 20th September 2009

News Paper Articles

• 'Open source opening doors to IT' - Sunday Times
• 'Reconstructing Sri Lanka’s education system with ‘Hanthana’' - DailyFT article

Certifications

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) - RHEL6
• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) - RHEL6

Public Profile

• LinkedIn