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 Freenode in
	#fedora #fedora-ambassadors #fedora-l10n #hanthana

Danishka Navin

Danishka Navin is based in Sri Lanka and is a Systems Engineer by profession and he do public speaking, community building/development and conducting awareness of Free and Open Source Software.

In 2009 he found the Hanthana Linux Project, a Fedora remix. It has been deployed in several government schools locally and download more than 15,000 copies globally. The Hanthana Linux Project let local community to contribute back to global FOSS movement under Hanthana Linux Project. Several school students, teachers, university students and other users started contributing by spreading word, finding bugs, compiling documentation. Some of them have been filled bugs/issues against the upstream project (such as Fedora, LibreOffice, etc) after knowing the proper bug filling mechanism.

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

Moreover he is working on deploying school ICT labs in financially deprecated schools, under Hanthana School Labs 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 FOSS Activities/Contributions

• Mozilla - Community Lead, 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: www.linkedin.com/in/danishkanavin
• Twitter: @danishkanavin
• Flickr: Danishka Navin
• FaceBook: Danishka Navin

Danishka Navin

I am the Language Maintainer for Fedora Sinhala (The National language of the Sri Lanka) and also an active contributor to the Gnome Translation Project (GTP), Open Office and Mozilla. And also I am the coordinator of the KDE Sinhala Team. Moreover I am working as a Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka and as well as contributing to Fedora Free-Media project.

Contact

• Email: [[MailTo(snavin AT fedoraproject DOT org)] or [[MailTo(danishka AT gmail DOT com)]
• IRC: hanthana #fedora-admin, #fedora-l10n, #Sinhala-l10n (irc.freenode.net)
• GPG key: A7064AD2
• Fedora Account: snavin

Profile

• Language Maintainer - Fedora Sinhala
• Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka
• Program Coordinator: Fedora Free-Media project Sri Lanka
• Mozilla Browser/toolkit owner
• Coordinator KDE Sinhala Localization Project
• Gnome Translation Project (GTP)
• Open Office - Sinahala localization
• Pidgin - Sinahala localization