User:Snavin

Danishka Navin
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Home:	Sri Lanka
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FAS-Name:	snavin
Fedora-Mail:	snavin@fedoraproject.org
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Private Mail:	snavin@fedoraproject.org
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Danishka Navin

Danishka Navin is a Systems Engineer based in Sri Lanka 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 over 50,000 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, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Sugarlabs Foundation.

Moreover he is working on deploying school ICT labs in financially deprecated schools, under Hanthana School Labs Project.

Fedora Contribution

• Package Maintainer - packages maintain
• 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

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

Project

Hanthana Linux School Labs Project

Hanthana Linux School Labs project is another initiative to deploy FOSS driven school ICT labs in rural areas. These labs are deployed with the help of community.

Watch this documentary on first pilot project [with English subtitles]

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