User:Shahidfarooqui

Shahid Ali Farooqui

I am working as Research Fellow at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. I am part of project "Spoken Tutorial" here at IIT Bombay. Through this project we create contents & promote FOSS. We are in process of creating spoken tutorials on several FOSS including Ubuntu Linux.

I am also serving as Mozilla Representative for Mozilla.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Shahidfarooqui

Spoken Tutorial project is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India to promote and use FOSS system in our country.

We do conduct workshops on FOSS systems across the country, which includes Linux, Scilab, PHP My-SQL, Python etc.

I am part of event team as well. We do participate and organise FOSS events across the country. We recently organised Software Freedom Day, SciPy India conference, Drupal Camp Mumbai etc. I was part of organization of WikiConference India 2011 at University of Mumbai, Mumbai.

I am also part of Scilab India project.

I do manage Spoken Tutorial and Scilab India portals. I am mentoring Campus Ambassador programme of our Spoken Tutorial project.

Prior to my current assignment, I worked as Project Systems Manager, High Performance Scientific Computing at Harish Chandra Research Institute, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, Allahabad

Contact

Email: mailto:shahidfarooqui@gmail.com IRC: GPG key: Fedora Account: shahidfarooqui

Activities within Fedora

I am just starting with Fedora