User:Teraom

Identity
Name:Bharadwaj Parthasarathy Email:bharadwaj.parthasarathy at gmail Project title:

Contact/working info
Timezone:CST [GMT - 5] Typical working hours:Noon to Midnight IRC or IM networks/handle(s):skype - barbi_bruce

Project summary
I do not have a project idea at the moment. I am willing to take up a challenge that the mediawiki community puts up! I have good expertise in PHP, Mysql, HTML, CSS. I have four professional certifications to my name.

About you
Computer science Graduate student in University of Minnesota, Twin cities. During my course, I have read about a dozen research papers on wikipedia, published in CHI, WWW, CSCW and the wikipedia research in my university is a big motivation factor. I have three years industry experience including 2.4 years in IBM.

I have also researched on social networking inside wikipedia for my semester project, where I studied the implementation, effect and feasibility of social networking in wikipedia.

Participation
I am pretty new to open source development.

Proposed work hours: 10-20+ hours per week, depending on the project. I intend to use CVS for code repositories. Typically I am very open to guidance from experts and would like to report at every milestone and also once every week. When I am in need of help, I will seek guidance from mentors immediately, most communication would happen though email and/or skype/IM.

Past open source experience
Currently working on porting an open source application to mac OS X.

Any other info
I have been using open source products for a long time but I have never participated or contributed back to the community. Better late than never, I wish to contribute to open source and I am very excited about it.