Self-Introduction: Viji Nair

Hi, my name is Viji Nair and I live in Mumbai, India. (I travel a lot in India to promote FOSS). My Fedora Account System (FAS) username is viji, and my IRC nick is also viji. I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the fedoraproject.org, and am interested in joining because I am working as an Open source evangelist for the last 10 years and a long term contributor to multiple Linux projects. I could see fedora as a bleeding edge platform to test and deploy most of the cutting edge technology in distributed computing and cloud today. I am working with many government and private sectors on migration/development/deployment of their infrastructure to FOSS, so, I believe fedora will be a very good choice as a platform. I've worked in open source and/or Free Software in the past. Some of the projects I've worked on, or communities I've been involved with, include: reiser4 filesystem where I am doing QA, support, and community-organizing work, and FreeIPA where I do more of the same. You can find more details about my work on - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Viji_V_Nair This is the first Marketing project I have worked on! My skills, which I hope to utilize in Fedora Marketing, include: Marketing Skills: My background is engineering, I have to learn a lot. I have a reasonable understanding about the features of Fedora when compared to other distribution, I am already promoting the same in different colleges Other Skills: * I am into core technology, so, I can provision fedora very well into a any technical requirement. * Documentation and wiki * Conferences and workshops I'd also like to learn: The different ways we can promote Fedora in Academic institutions like engineering and MCA colleges. When I'm not working on Fedora, I am working with Reliance BIG Entertainment. A couple of goals I have for the Fedora Project are conducting more marketing campaigns in Mumbai region. I would also like to see more technical events on different new technology happening in India promoted by Fedora I am wondering about what has been done in Marketing in the past, specifically in Mumbai region. Please help me get started! Thanks & Regards Viji Nair