User:Brandorr

= Brian Gupta =

About me
I have over 20 years experience in the IT space in a variety of roles, including: network engineering, system administration, storage administration, High availability deployments, IT management. Currently I am passionate about open source projects and mobile technology. (Especially where the two meet: e.g. Android)

I am actively involved in the New York City user group community, in such that I cofounded the Puppet and OpenSolaris user groups, and am currently serving as an Officer in the New York Linux User Group (NYLUG), and am a member of many others.

Presentations

 * A presentation I gave on Android: http://www.slideshare.net/natdefreitas/an-introduction-to-android http://nylug.org/blog/2009/02/17/meeting-feb-18-630-pm-brian-gupta-and-nathan-freitas-on-an-overview-of-the-android-mobile-platform/

FAQ

 * An FAQ I help maintain on Android: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Android_FAQ (I believe this is the most comprehensive FAQ on Android to date.)

Articles where I have been quoted on Android

 * http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Google-Irks-Android-Developers-with-Cyanogen-Move-837741/1/
 * http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Serves-Up-Donut-Preview-of-Android-Mobile-OS-305262/
 * http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-Developers-See-Opportunity-Hacks/

Debian Developer Conference
In addition, from 2008-2010 I was involved with planning for the New York City Debian Developer Conference. http://debconf10.debconf.org/ (I designed the original logo that inspired the final logo for the conference.) In addition my company is a sponsor of the Debian Developer Conference. I was also an early member of the team that put together the initial bid to have the conference in NYC in the late summer of 2008. In addition I have since helped organize additional conferences, starting with DebConf13.

Wikipedia interests

 * I started the new article on carputers: Carputers (Mostly because they are moving to mobile, and soon we will be seeing Android in more and more of them, which brings me to my next interest:
 * Android Although I have strong editorial differences with some members of the team currently editing the Android page, and thusly am having my edits removed, I am aim to continue to contribute more to this page, and improve the general public's knowledge of Android.
 * NYLUG I started this article because NYLUG had been around for over ten years, and it still didn't have a Wikipedia article. Interestingly, it was nominated for deletion, but the article (barely) survived. Articles for deletion/NYLUG
 * Monit I started this article because it is a fairly popular piece of software in the Ruby on Rails community.