User:Shahidfarooqui

Shahid Ali Farooqui
Personal Information
City:	Kolkata
Country:	India
Mozilla-specific Information
Wiki-Username:	Shahidfarooqui
Bugzilla-Mail:	shahidfarooqui@gmail.com
Mentor:	User:Kinger
Miscellaneous Information
private Mail:	shahidfarooqui@gmail.com
GPG-Key:	{{{gpg}}}
Website:	[www.shahidfarooqui.in Shahid Ali's Website]
Twitter:	shahidfarooqui
Identi.ca:	shahidfarooqui
Jabber:	shahidfarooqui
IRC:	shahidfarooqui on irc.mozilla.com on irc.mozilla.org in
	#firefox, #thunderbird, #bugzila

Background

I am working as Research Fellow at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. I am part of project "Spoken Tutorial" here at IIT Bombay. Through this project we create contents & promote FOSS. We are in process of creating spoken tutorials on several FOSS including Mozilla Firefox.

Spoken Tutorial project is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India to promote and use FOSS system in our country.

We do conduct workshops on FOSS systems across the country, which includes Linux, Scilab, PHP My-SQL, Python etc.

I am part of event team as well. We do participate and organise FOSS events across the country. We recently organised Software Freedom Day, SciPy India conference, Drupal Camp Mumbai etc. I was part of organization of WikiConference India 2011 at University of Mumbai, Mumbai.

I am also part of Scilab India project.

I do manage Spoken Tutorial and Scilab India portals. I am mentoring Campus Ambassador programme of our Spoken Tutorial project.

Prior to my current assignment, I worked as Project Systems Manager, High Performance Scientific Computing at Harish Chandra Research Institute, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, Allahabad

Events

Participated in SciPy India Conference held at IIT Bombay during the 4-7 December 2011.

Attended Hackathan Mumbai and Wiki Conference India held at University of Mumbai, Mumbai during 18-20 November 2011

Organised Software Freedom Day (SFD2011) on 17th September, 2011 at IIT Bombay.

Organising Member of International Conference on “Sage Days 25 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, between August 9-12, 2010

Conducted FOSS Workshops on Scilab, Linux, LaTeX, PHP-SQL and Python across the country.

Attended two days Workshop on Cloud Computing and Virtualization at IIT Bombay from 26th March to 27th March, 2011

Participated in two days National Conference on Data Warehousing and Data Mining MINEWARE – 2011 at L&T Institute of Technology, Mumbai from 7th to 8th January, 2011.

Organising Member of the second “International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E'10)” held at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, between July 1-3, 2010

Participated in The Consulting Continuum 2010 at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai from 20th March to 21st March, 2010.

Attended two days National Conference on Advancements in Information & Communication Technology on 15th and 16th March 2008, Organised by Computer Society of India at Allahabad.

Participated in workshop on Spoken Tutorials for Free Open Source Software, at IIT Bombay on 1st April, 2010

Participated in following workshops during GNUnify'10 at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, from 19th to 20th February, 2010.

Participated in two days Workshop on Information Security, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai from 23rd to 24th January, 2010

Participated in Workshop on Data Digitization, Data Mining and Data Warehousing at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad from 24th October, 2009 to 28th October, 2009. Speaker Prof. Bharat Bhaskar, IIM, Lucknow.

Participated in two days NVIDIA CUDA Workshop at IIT, Kanpur from 12th February, 2009 to 13th February, 2009

Participated in one day workshop on Beagle Board of Texas Instrument at IIT, Kanpur on 14th February, 2009.

Participated in various FOSS events at IIT Kanpur during 12th Feb, 2009 to 14th February, 2009.

Participated in two days workshop on Information Security and Management System at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad from 28th March, 2008 to 29th March, 2008. I gave a presentation during this workshop.

Participated in Workshop on ‘Linux and Systems Administration’ at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, Allahabad from 25th April 2005 to 30th April 2005.

Participated in School on ‘Distributed Parallel Computing’ at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, Allahabad from 11th April 2002 to 19th April 2002.

Given talk on LaTeX, Creating document using LaTeX, Creating Devanagari document using LaTeX at MDM College, Aurad, Latur on 10th March, 2010.

Gave presentation on “Future of Information Security” during the two days school on Information Security Management System held at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad.

Gave presentation on “How to create and maintain personal web site.”

Monthly reports

Here are the monthly reports of this user:

Month	Report
February 2012	Shahidfarooqui report February 2012
January 2012	Shahidfarooqui report January 2012

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