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Richard Vijay
Richard Vijay
Richard Vijay
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Introduction Hello Fedora Community Volunteers, I am Vijay Richard, IT specialist from UK.

IRC channel : As fedora_richie at fedora ,#fedora-test-day #fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-mktg and other channels.

Recent Fedora Assignments : Fedora Testing GNOME3 with Fedora15.

Reported and following up bugzilla bug 688236,688247,688271,688274.

Part of Upgrade day 3 testing for Fedora 14->15.

My UUID pub_b997f715-39e9-4a12-96ca-0b6d4c8d89d0 smolt.I have started working on translation

Profession : I work on IT for Automotive Research and Design. Certified IASA (core ) Architect, Full membership and contributing memberships on IASA -International Association of IT Architects ITIL V3 -2011 certified

Interests: To volunteer as Fedora's Ambassador, highlighting core values of Freedom, Friends, Features, First in worldwide events and opportunities. To contribute to Fedora along rapid release cycle with Testing,Documentation, Translation.

My Aims for Fedora

Primarily, I would like to spread the word of fedora,its features,vision and mission as an Ambassador for automotive Research and Development community. Help students interested in fedora from developing countries and promote fedora among third world communities.

Help other Fedora Ambassadors and its Steering Committee in the required area of work including events planning and organising. Plan and coordinate in organising local highlighter events in england, plan and produce online workshops and casts on installation and maintenance with focus on on specific roles.

My secondary aim would be to contribute on technical aspects of fedora as I would like to contribute on development of HPC, grid computing facilities with focus on FEA,CAE and advanced numerical methods.

I am interested to take up initiatives to develop fedora, make it more focussed on enterprise level client server multi-tier Applications and workstation clients used for CAD,CAM,CAE and PLM applications.

I have started to work on and help in fedora localization and translation to language Tamil ref [1].

I have planned my roadmap for volunteering in fedora as ambassador,content writer for documents, while highlighting fedora in my external blogs.

References' LinkedIn :[2] and others [3]

Twitter Technical [4]

Career Highlights


My previous roles in career include working as Architect for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy & Implementing IT Enabled Product development Solutions to Automotive and Aerospace OEM s worldwide.

I have aimed and worked towards reduction in Product Cost and Product Development Time for Automotive and aerospace companies with innovation in "process and IT" systems.

Other Volunteering and Activities

I also focus on Linux foundation,LPI and FSF as Free Software Foundation community member. Interests in Virtualised OS Windows client/servers, Open Solaris, FreeBSD, Fedora 14, OpenSUSE, Open Indiana.

I volunteer for UN, UNESCO and UNICEF & CRY Volunteer, voluntary blood donor. Thanks --Richardvj11 23:43, 3 June 2011 (UTC)