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The easiest way to find out about me is to visit my Web site [http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/about/].

Amongst a variety of Free and Open Source Software contributions [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SridharDhanapalan], I have previously been a board member of Linux Australia and President of the Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG). I have given presentations at various events including linux.conf.au, OSDC, SLUG, Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day.

Amongst a variety of Free and Open Source Software contributions since the 1990s [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SridharDhanapalan], I have previously been a board member of Linux Australia and President of the Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG). I have given presentations at various events including linux.conf.au, OSDC, SLUG, Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day.

For nearly two years I have served full-time as OLPC Australia's Engineering Manager, liaising between developers and educators to ensure that we are able to satisfy requirements on the ground. My team at OLPC Australia take this very seriously, to the point of extending OLPC's core principles with two of our own [http://www.laptop.org.au/vision/core-principles]:

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As a Sugar Labs Oversight Board member, I aim to bring this same kind of holistic approach to guiding Sugar. My strength is in using my extensive Free Software experience to meet real needs on the ground. I strongly believe that for Sugar to grow, it needs to have strong representation from all stakeholders, including deployments.

Our contributions to Sugar have been numerous. We have extended the OLPC XS Schoolserver with our XS-AU [https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xs-au/wiki], creating a far more flexible collaboration solution. We have partnered with Activity Central to develop many improvements for the platform. These are currently being tested in ~~Activity Central's~~ Dextrose developer builds, and will be upstreamed in the near future.

Our contributions to Sugar have been numerous. We have extended the OLPC XS Schoolserver with our XS-AU [https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xs-au/wiki], creating a far more flexible collaboration solution. We have partnered with Activity Central to develop many improvements for the platform. These are currently being tested in Dextrose developer builds, and will be upstreamed in the near future.

While it's all well and good to speak about past achievements, it's important as a Board member to have a vision for the future. We need to broaden the developer and user base. We need to make it simpler to access Sugar.

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 The easiest way to find out about me is to visit my Web site [http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/about/].
-Amongst a variety of Free and Open Source Software contributions [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SridharDhanapalan], I have previously been a board member of Linux Australia and President of the Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG). I have given presentations at various events including linux.conf.au, OSDC, SLUG, Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day.
+Amongst a variety of Free and Open Source Software contributions since the 1990s [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SridharDhanapalan], I have previously been a board member of Linux Australia and President of the Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG). I have given presentations at various events including linux.conf.au, OSDC, SLUG, Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day.
 For nearly two years I have served full-time as OLPC Australia's Engineering Manager, liaising between developers and educators to ensure that we are able to satisfy requirements on the ground. My team at OLPC Australia take this very seriously, to the point of extending OLPC's core principles with two of our own [http://www.laptop.org.au/vision/core-principles]:
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 As a Sugar Labs Oversight Board member, I aim to bring this same kind of holistic approach to guiding Sugar. My strength is in using my extensive Free Software experience to meet real needs on the ground. I strongly believe that for Sugar to grow, it needs to have strong representation from all stakeholders, including deployments.
-Our contributions to Sugar have been numerous. We have extended the OLPC XS Schoolserver with our XS-AU [https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xs-au/wiki], creating a far more flexible collaboration solution. We have partnered with Activity Central to develop many improvements for the platform. These are currently being tested in Activity Central's Dextrose developer builds, and will be upstreamed in the near future.
+Our contributions to Sugar have been numerous. We have extended the OLPC XS Schoolserver with our XS-AU [https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xs-au/wiki], creating a far more flexible collaboration solution. We have partnered with Activity Central to develop many improvements for the platform. These are currently being tested in Dextrose developer builds, and will be upstreamed in the near future.
 While it's all well and good to speak about past achievements, it's important as a Board member to have a vision for the future. We need to broaden the developer and user base. We need to make it simpler to access Sugar.