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)
- 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
- 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 live in Sri Lanka and have lived in Oman, Singapore, Papua New Guniea, UK and USA growing up.
- 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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