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Speaker Name	Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Organization
Type	Talk
Scope	General
Slides	Click to download
Is the OpenOffice.org Community in India a study in meiosis ?
Abstract	The community around OpenOffice.org in India is currently limited to only Native Language Projects. There is much more to contribute to OpenOffice.org than string translation. Such contributions include QA and Testing, Release Engineering, creating extensions, adding dictionaries etc. This un-technical talk takes in areas from various OpenOffice.org efforts and attempts to reconcile them towards how to increase the quantum of contributions to OpenOffice.org from India. While it touches upon the areas of possible contributions, it also shows how easy it is to start contributing. Thus, it aims at providing "consumers" of OpenOffice.org a means to provide a feedback loop which also makes them feel a part of the community.
Pre-requisites	+ Awareness of the existence of OpenOffice.org + Consumer of OpenOffice.org services/products + Interest in creating extensions for OpenOffice.org + Interest in providing feedback to enhance OpenOffice.org
Speaker Profile	Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay has been involved in Localisation, primarily bn_IN (Bengali India) through his association with the Ankur Bangla Project. He is, at the time of writing, a member of the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee and a contact for GNOME Marketing SIG in India. Additionally, as a Marketing Contact for OpenOffice.org, Sankarshan is the primary point of contact for all issues related to marketing of OpenOffice.org and sometimes even support for the same. Sankarshan is also affiliated to the Free Software Foundation and is part of the Working Group for FSF-India. This year, Sankarshan was the Google Summer of Code Mentor for the Offline Updater OPYUM through The Fedora Project.