Hi everyone! My name's Lalith Suresh and I'm currently in my 3rd year,
pursuing a B.Tech degree in Computer Engineering in Malaviya National
Institute of Technology, Jaipur.
I belong to the state of Kerala which has been tagged 'God's Own Country' for the unparalleled beauty of the land. But my life has been spread across three countries, five institutions and six cities. I was born in the capital of Iran, Teheran where I spent the first seven years of my life. A year in Calicut, Kerala and five years in Doha, Qatar followed right after that. I finally returned to my country at the age of 14 to the beautiful, agricultural town of Palakkad and this is where my home is right now. I did the rest of my schooling there itself.
The Computer to me is the undisputed wonder of the modern world. I owe my deep interest in computers to my now late father who introduced me to them at the age of 4. I still remember the first few commands I'd typed out in MS-DOS which included 'dir/p' and 'cd'. More than anything else, I loved to play computer games and it's a passion that hovers around me even now.
My first exposure to open source came when some seniors of ours conducted sessions for us last year to get us acquainted with Linux and the LAMP way of things. For me, it was love at first sight (I'm talking about open source here... :D). You can say I've done my own share of evangelizing amongst my friends and relatives, insisting them to make the switch to open source software. I also took up the task of continuing the networking and system administration related work that the above mentioned seniors used to do in our institute and the first of these tasks for me was Network Monitoring through which I went up a good learning curve. A couple of months later, I was a delegate at 'FOSS.IN 07' which was the awakening call for me as far as the whole point of open source was concerned. I knew that I had to contribute somehow and it had to be through the road of a developer. For the next semester after that, I tried but I think I wasn't focussed enough. Doubting my own potential, I even chickened away from applying to the Google Summer of Code.
I'd decided to spend the summer holidays here in Jaipur itself to continue whatever work I'd been doing in my institute. And it was during one fateful morning that I found a notice put up by the former CA inviting applications from students to be his successor. I was quick to do a Google on the Campus Ambassador Programme and it was just one little line that I read that made me bent keen on rising to the challenge. And that was the one saying that the CA's will be mentored to code on specific projects. If I had to contribute to open source, I knew this was the path for me and here I am now, the CA of MNIT Jaipur.
My technical interests include Network Monitoring, High Availability Clusters and System Administration. I have ample experience in maintaining software and using them but if there's something I know I lack, it is proper coding skills
. And through the CA programme, I
hope to build up on that and emerge a fine developer one day. And this
has been the only driving factor for me as far as joining the programme
is concerned.
Moving on to my hobbies, like I've already mentioned above, I'm very passionate about gaming and my personal favourites include Warcraft 3 (more specifically speaking, Dota), the NFS series and Unreal Tournament 2k4. I also dig football and I'm a die hard fan of Bayern Munich and Germany. I used to play football a couple of years back but I've cut down on it because of asthmatic problems. Yuck. Furthermore, a more recent passion of mine has been writing. Satire is my forte, and I love mocking various incidents and experiences I've tasted in life. Do drop by and give my blog a look: lalithsuresh.wordpress.com .
Teaching is also something I enjoy and I consider it one of the most noble professions on the planet. I guess the whole idea of sharing knowledge to a younger generation is kind of enticing and I kind of draw parallels between that and open source at times because open source is all about sharing right? A dream for me would be to be out there teaching at some big university and being the only professor in campus to have a World of Warcraft account. Yeah yeah, call me a geek.
I'm looking forward to the year ahead as the CA of my institute. I've already been moved by the sheer amount of bonding I experienced at the Induction Training Programme we had in Bangalore between the 27th and 29th of July, 2008 which was the perfect concoction of fun and enlightenment. The feeling of belongingness I felt over there seems to have made me rather emotionally connected to the community and I'm looking forward to experience more and more of it as my tenure at Sun progresses.
Cheers!
I belong to the state of Kerala which has been tagged 'God's Own Country' for the unparalleled beauty of the land. But my life has been spread across three countries, five institutions and six cities. I was born in the capital of Iran, Teheran where I spent the first seven years of my life. A year in Calicut, Kerala and five years in Doha, Qatar followed right after that. I finally returned to my country at the age of 14 to the beautiful, agricultural town of Palakkad and this is where my home is right now. I did the rest of my schooling there itself.
The Computer to me is the undisputed wonder of the modern world. I owe my deep interest in computers to my now late father who introduced me to them at the age of 4. I still remember the first few commands I'd typed out in MS-DOS which included 'dir/p' and 'cd'. More than anything else, I loved to play computer games and it's a passion that hovers around me even now.
My first exposure to open source came when some seniors of ours conducted sessions for us last year to get us acquainted with Linux and the LAMP way of things. For me, it was love at first sight (I'm talking about open source here... :D). You can say I've done my own share of evangelizing amongst my friends and relatives, insisting them to make the switch to open source software. I also took up the task of continuing the networking and system administration related work that the above mentioned seniors used to do in our institute and the first of these tasks for me was Network Monitoring through which I went up a good learning curve. A couple of months later, I was a delegate at 'FOSS.IN 07' which was the awakening call for me as far as the whole point of open source was concerned. I knew that I had to contribute somehow and it had to be through the road of a developer. For the next semester after that, I tried but I think I wasn't focussed enough. Doubting my own potential, I even chickened away from applying to the Google Summer of Code.
I'd decided to spend the summer holidays here in Jaipur itself to continue whatever work I'd been doing in my institute. And it was during one fateful morning that I found a notice put up by the former CA inviting applications from students to be his successor. I was quick to do a Google on the Campus Ambassador Programme and it was just one little line that I read that made me bent keen on rising to the challenge. And that was the one saying that the CA's will be mentored to code on specific projects. If I had to contribute to open source, I knew this was the path for me and here I am now, the CA of MNIT Jaipur.
My technical interests include Network Monitoring, High Availability Clusters and System Administration. I have ample experience in maintaining software and using them but if there's something I know I lack, it is proper coding skills
. And through the CA programme, I
hope to build up on that and emerge a fine developer one day. And this
has been the only driving factor for me as far as joining the programme
is concerned.Moving on to my hobbies, like I've already mentioned above, I'm very passionate about gaming and my personal favourites include Warcraft 3 (more specifically speaking, Dota), the NFS series and Unreal Tournament 2k4. I also dig football and I'm a die hard fan of Bayern Munich and Germany. I used to play football a couple of years back but I've cut down on it because of asthmatic problems. Yuck. Furthermore, a more recent passion of mine has been writing. Satire is my forte, and I love mocking various incidents and experiences I've tasted in life. Do drop by and give my blog a look: lalithsuresh.wordpress.com .
Teaching is also something I enjoy and I consider it one of the most noble professions on the planet. I guess the whole idea of sharing knowledge to a younger generation is kind of enticing and I kind of draw parallels between that and open source at times because open source is all about sharing right? A dream for me would be to be out there teaching at some big university and being the only professor in campus to have a World of Warcraft account. Yeah yeah, call me a geek.
I'm looking forward to the year ahead as the CA of my institute. I've already been moved by the sheer amount of bonding I experienced at the Induction Training Programme we had in Bangalore between the 27th and 29th of July, 2008 which was the perfect concoction of fun and enlightenment. The feeling of belongingness I felt over there seems to have made me rather emotionally connected to the community and I'm looking forward to experience more and more of it as my tenure at Sun progresses.
Cheers!