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	* '''About you'''		* '''About you'''
	I am working in Infosys Technologies Ltd, chennai as a Programmer		I am working in Infosys Technologies Ltd, chennai as a Programmer
	Analyst in weekdays and working for my own projects		Analyst in weekdays and working for my own projects in weekends.
	in weekends.

	* '''Screenshot of your desktop'''		* '''Screenshot of your desktop'''
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	* '''Also please add any other qustions you would like to answer :-)'''		* '''Also please add any other qustions you would like to answer :-)'''
	Do you have any more questions?		Do you have any more questions?

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Santhosh contributes to Dhvani TTS, GNOME Malayalam, Debian Malayalam, Aspell-ml, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Silpa project.

<pre>
Name: Santhosh Thottingal
Age: 24
Occupation: Software Engineer
IRC Nick: santhosh
Email: santhosh dot thottingal at gmail.com
</pre>
Computer / Laptop Configuration and OS (Distro):
* Laptop
HP COMPAQ Presario V3029 Turion64X2@1.6GHz/512DDR2/80GB with Debian
Lenny, Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9

==History==
* '''How did you get into GNU, Linux and FOSS in general?'''
My friend gave me a book "Free software Free Society"
(http://www.gnu.org/doc/book13.html) when I was in
Engg college(2003).

* '''Share your first encounter with FOSS (Installation, setup, etc.)'''
When I got a computer at home(It was at 2003. My house got electricy
connection at 2001 only) I asked
my dealer to install 'linux' on that. He tried and failed. So I tried
myself and after 3 or 4 attempts, I did it

* '''What lead to a sustained continuity in FOSS after you stepped in?'''
gnu philosophy + community + friends + my projects
* '''A funny instance during your initial days of computing with FOSS
/ computers complimentary to second question)'''
The same dealer started calling me for installation help after one year
==Present FOSSy activity==

* '''Which project do you currently contribute to?'''
SMC Projects(L10N of gnome, debian, kde, Swanalekha Input method,
Aspell/Hunspell Spell checkers, etc..),
Dhvani Indian language text to speech system

* '''How much time in a week / day / month do you spend on it?'''
Nights(2-3 Hours) + Weekends

* '''What are your favourite text editor[s] / IDE[s] / development
environment tools?'''
gedit, Eclipse
* '''What do you think is best about your project (that you contribute to)?'''
It is for for common man

* '''What would you like to advise budding contributors/developers?'''
Think about the users first, then think about the project

* '''Any favorite programming language?'''

C

==Opinions==

* '''"Philosophy plus pragmatism" or "Just Philosophy can achieve
goals" or "Just Pragmatism can achieve goals" - Could also be looked
as RMS or Linus'''

Philosophy or RMS

* '''What's interesting about your local GNU/Linux User Group / other
community that you are a part of?'''
SMC - A community that grown very fast to the most active Free
software developer community working
in Natural Language techonolgy in India

* '''Five quick buzzwords (verbs / adjectives) for an "ideal"
community according to you?'''
FOSS + hackers + involvement + trust + communication + upstream

* '''Best (or your favorite) FOSS related conference in India (One or
many) and why?'''
foss.in
* '''Why do you think Localisation is important in a country like India?"
illiteracy + widening digital divide will tell that story

==Personal==

* '''About you'''
I am working in Infosys Technologies Ltd, chennai as a Programmer
Analyst in weekdays and working for my own projects
in weekends.

* '''Screenshot of your desktop'''
പിന്നെത്തരാം ട്ടോ
* '''Your working room / working environment (photo / description)'''
അടിച്ചുവൃത്തിയാക്കീട്ടില്ല. അതുകൊണ്ടു് കാണാന്‍ കൊള്ളില്ല. അതുകഴിഞ്ഞു
ഒരുഗ്രന്‍ ഫോടോ അയച്ചുതരാം.
* '''Favourite beverage:'''
Butter milk

* '''Favourite Street Food:'''
Banana Bajji

* '''Current Locality (City, State):'''
Chennai, Tamilnadu

* '''Mother Tongue'''
Malayalam

* '''City in India you would like to visit in your free time'''
I don't like visiting Cities, Instead I would like travel through
God's Own Country.
* '''Also please add any other qustions you would like to answer :-)'''
Do you have any more questions?

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