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 *Anything else you think is relevant.
 I am leading a team of volunteers on technical side for OLPC APAC division.
+=== [[User:SayaminduDasgupta|Sayamindu]] ===
+*Name/contact
+Sayamindu Dasgupta (sayamindu at gmail)
+unmadindu on IRC
+*Timezone
+Asia/Calcutta (UTC+0530) (I normally work on European timezones)
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+Activities, l10n/i18n related projects.
+*How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? What are your other commitments over the summer?
+I am working a contractor for OLPC for the next few months. However, I think I can commit around 4-5 hours per week for the work.
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+Wrote the Imageviewer activity, maintainer of Terminal, in the process of implementing largish features to Read. Familiar with GTK+, Python, Gstreamer, etc.
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+I was a mentor during SoC 2008 for the Translate toolkit project (my student worked successfully on enhancing the Pootle featureset). I have also experience informally mentoring/guiding students and volunteers for a number of Free Software projects (mostly i18n/l10n related).
+*Anything else you think is relevant.
+I was a successful student participant in Summer of Code 2007 under Federico Mena-Quintero for the GNOME project. I also helped in the rating of applications for OLPC as a mentoring organisation during 2008's SoC.