[smc-discuss] Anish started maintaining a package in debian (Re: Nandaja Verma is a new debian contributor!)

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Kudos man

Regards,
Mahesh
On Nov 3, 2012 5:40 PM, "Praveen A" <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 2012/11/1 Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I just uploaded Nandaja Verma's new debian package to debian[1]! This
>> has been the result of many days of hard work from her side learning
>> packaging. She was not only learning, but also helping others with
>> their packaging work. I'm happy to see her package in NEW queue today
>> and looking forward to more contributions from her. I also hope hope
>> her work would inspire more of you to start maintaining packages or
>> contribute to Free Software in many other ways.
>>
>> I suggest abacus folks organize a session with her to share her
>> experience and later sessions to learn packaging from her.
>>
>> For those who are not from abacus, Nandaja Verma is a student of NSS
>> Engineering college Palakkad.
>>
>> Congratulations again and thanks for contributing to debian and Free
>> Software. You have made diaspora one package closer to entering in
>> debian!
>>
>> [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/ruby-columnize_0.3.6-1.html
>>
>> Note: We have live packaging sessions every night at 10pm on our irc
>> channel #debian-diaspora on irc.oftc.net or login directly to
>> http://mibbit.com/?channel=%23debian-diaspora&server=irc.oftc.net
>>
>> Come and learn packaging any time. See http://piratepad.net/tu0H1eU2vH
>> for more details.
>>
>
> Just uploaded Anish's package today and he is also completed his package
> in the live sessions we run every night. He is not new to debian, he was
> already contributing to Debian Installer Malayalam translations. I'm happy
> to see him maintain packages too.
>
> Anish is already active in many Free Software communities already -
> Swathnthra Malayalam Computing and Indian Libre Users Group Trivandrum to
> name a few. He runs a company which offers web hosting  completely on Free
> Software.
>
> Congrats Anish!
>
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