Omshivaprakash is a FOSS evangelist, Wikipedian, Mozillan, Blogger, Open Source contributor from Bengaluru where he has been involved in community building activities around Kannada & Technology. His engagements like Gnu/Linux Habba, Arivina Alegalu & Hejje and has engaged young minds towards language technology. He writes technology articles in kannada on his blog Linuxaayana. Founder member of Sanchaya – (a collective exploring the possibilities of using technology in linguistics & literary research) and Sanchi Foundation (“Sanchi” is a not for profit organisation working for the documentation of audio-visual heritage.). Vachana Sanchaya – https://vachana.sanchaya.net is one of the very much structured linguistic research tools built in Kannada through Sanchaya’s initiatives. With over 18+ years of experience in the field of Information & Technology, he has played a significant role as a trainer, Infrastructure Management Specialist, CTO, Director for Business Development & Technology etc. He has currently penned a book on Free Culture & Licensing called – Creative Commons Kannada 101. Apart from being active around the technology sphere, he has immense interest around literature, photography, trekking, cycling.
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