Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm Arun Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore, India and have joined as contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction designer along with Pau to improve the user experience of language tools and features.
I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during the Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6] where I proposed some of the first ideas for the Universal Language Selector widget with Brandon, with which we want to make language selection for anyone easy peasy.
Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain my map contributions and the occasional headline for wikipedia [8], use only public transport[9] and traveling with my pocket camera[10].
Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I wont claim to know much, but I hope to make a difference in whichever way possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and learning from the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather and Pau to do the wonderful things that designers like to do .So keep the usability bugs coming :) -Arun
[1a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad [1b] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team [2] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?&wiki=commons.wi... [3] http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4&lat=21.96627&lon=81.68268&lay... [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_Or... [5] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf [6] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-W... [7] http://bit.ly/timesofindia-osm [8] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-in... [9] http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223.... [10] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html