Chamindra de Silva

Full Name:

Chamindra Kishan Ignatius de Silva

A Few details about me.....

Key Orgs / Groups / Projects  i work on:

• Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System - PMC Chair & Director 
• Humanitarian-ICT Community - Co-Founder
• W3C Disaster Management Ontology XG - Co-Chair 
• ISCRAM (Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) - Committee Member 

• Virtusa - Technology Strategist to Global Technology Office (x-R&D Manager) 
• Lanka Software Foundation - Contributor (x-Executive Director)
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• IEEE-CS Sri Lanka Chapter - Founder Committee Member
  
• Apache - Committer
  
• Asia OSS Symposium - Delegate for Sri Lanka
• UNDP IOSN - Sri Lanka / Humanitarian-FOSS Content Contributor
• Google Summer of Code - Project Mentor 
• LKLUG - Passionate User and Sri Lankan FOSS Advocate :-) 
• Red Cross - Volunteer 
  
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• Working on developing the concept of Humanitarian-FOSS, Disaster Management Ontologies and Humanitarian User Groups (HUGS). Also researching in the area of information security and software intellectual property rights
  

A Little General Information

• - I am married with two mischievous baby boys. 
• - I have been fortunate to have lived in multiple countries and cultures growing up including those in Sri Lanka, Oman, Singapore, Papua New Guniea, UK and USA.
• - Graduated in Engineering and Computer Science from Magdalen College, Oxford University
  
• - Finally but not least in terms of my values I strive to be a Christian. 

• Contact Info
  

• chamindra [at] opensource [dot] lk   (LSF/Sahana/FOSS email)
  
• chamindra [at] virtusa [dot] com      (Official Virtusa email)
• chamindra [at] gmail [dot] com        (Personal email)
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