User:Shashikant fosslover

Shashikant vaishnav
Hi ! Born and brought up in a desert town (Jodhpur) of Rajasthan, India , I am Shashikant Vaishnav, IRC nickname Shashitechno. I am a final year undergraduate at Engineering College Bikaner pursuing Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering.

At undergraduate school, I had the good fortune of being introduced to cool world of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). Along with a bunch of campus geeks, we formed a group named LUGB (Linux User Group Bikaner)Linux user Group Bikaner. I collaborated with team members and conducted lot of hackathons and sessions pertaining to open source frameworks, version control systems, technology programs etc. Besides this, I have been associated with volunteer & contributor of Wikipedia Wikipedia 10th Birthday. I visited many schools in my city, demonstrated school OS , educational tools it avails and linux ified their labs.

My broader research interests primarily focus on the areas of technology in education and developing software that takes into consideration the need of elementary learners.

My academics focus aside, I harbour a deep interest for extra-curricular activities including music and sports. I am an avid blogger and share my experiences with open source, technology and life.

Being accepted at Intern at moodle in Google Summer of code 2013.This summer I am excited to work with my project "Course Search" Gsoc'13 Proposal. The deliverable includes a functional advance search plugin for Moodle that can be installed and configured to substitute basic core search.

More about me

 * Currently Working as a contract developer in ClickHereMedia.co.uk
 * Google Summer of Code 2013 Intern Proposal.
 * Working as a Mentor in Google-code.in for @SugarLabs.
 * Working on the project Integration of Apache Solr with moodle course search Doc Specification
 * Read my blog :# Shashikant
 * A new volunteer & contributer of Wikipedia .Recently celebrated Wikipedia 10th Birthday at our campus.
 * An active member of Linux User Group Bikaner
 * An Open Source lover, Linux User
 * Worked as a Event Manager for the event Snap shots in college‘s National level Tech fest SAKSHAMA NEW 10.
 * oracle student partner