Ruwan Ranganath's reminiscence

It's been few years now I have been actively contributing to FOSS and it's community , even though in this less years I do had chance to work with numerous FOSS events and projects . from large scale organization like Mozilla Foundation to Local huge projects like Isuru Linux ( Program and OS ) to School workshops and seminars. Software Freedom Day in  Sri Lanka  was held in 2016 September 17th at NSBM ( National School of Business Management ) and also RUSL ( Rajarata University of Sri Lanka ) . It's really great to see enthusiasm in new people who really into Open Source Community , also people who understand it's a vision, not something that someone put boundaries around , people who understand where they can scale it where to suits their needs and to others. for all this years led me to things that I could talk about the visions , paths and philosophy for days. I do read about it lot , (A LOT ). and still internet filling with lot of people thought about it ...

Lately Ministry of Education ICT Unit ,powered up their Project call Isuru Linux.Well it was project with long history but as far as I know this is the time came with public awareness , events,  workshops  etc. Thanks to Mr Saman I got this chance with work with them and it was a great experience for my community projects including advocating and learning about  FOSS .   * This post will be updated with more details පාසල් සිසුන්ගේ නිදහස් මාදුකාංග පිළිබඳව දැනුම වර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා අවස්ථාව සැලසීම අරමුණු කර ගනිමින් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශයේ තොර... Posted by ISURU Linux ඉසුරු ලිනක්ස් on  Friday, January 29, 2016

Had privilege to attend another awesome event as Regional Ambassador Lead . "Foxepernuer 2016" organized by University of Colombo , School of Computing , UCSC Firefox Club - Sri Lanka . Introduction FSA Program - Sri Lanka  while I had chance to talk about Mozilla project , Firefox Student Ambassador program , contributions and benefits , had opportunity to meet great enthusiast people after the event.  And Future of developments & technologies , being a professional & maintain it Encouraging students bring innovative ideas happen , becoming entrepreneurs and really interesting topics we discussed by resource persons.   Shafraz Rahim and Malinda Prasad from Dialog Axiata IdeaMart , and Rashmika Nawaratne from 99X Techno logy has done those sessions in really interesting way !.  Rashmika Navaratne talk about maintain professionalism Shafraz Rahim on "Intern Entrepreneur" Malinda Prasad talk about "...

This is a post with little proud , about myself :p . Well I've work with several volunteer organizations and open source communities.this is the one thing I really happy about , Establishing Firefox Club at National School of Business Management ( NSBM ) . We did lot of events including FirefoxOS App development days , Localization events , Maker parties  etc . this event "grow up with Mozilla" also really important to be for two reasons . One is this is the first event happening after I become Regional Ambassador Lead to Asia , Sri Lanka at Mozilla Foundation for Firefox Student Ambassadors. Second one is bit of sad but every one have their time to left . even though I've founded this great community which runs by bunch of cool undergraduates now , They are doing great job now . Since this is my final year and we just had final lecturer I decided to resign as club lead and let them continue what are they are doing . Hossain Al Ikram , Mozilla Rep and RAL did a s...

This is late story. but I really want to keep my blog update with the programs I have involved with . Event "Hack at Ranabima" was successfully held on 19th of February  organized by Shipla Sayura Foundation.  had chance to meet enthusiast participant  including school and university students who are passionate with their development.  Event Photo gallery : https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1674084989532365.1073741862.1521449438129255&type=3 Hybrid Mobile Applications from Ruwan Ranganath Thank organizers for the invitation and enjoyed every single minute overnight :!

දිවයුරු පුත්‍ර ඇගයුම් උපහාර උළෙල සහ රාවන සුරිඳු පුජා මහෝත්සවය බරණැස්කන්ද රජ මහා විහාරයේදී 2015 ඔක්තෝම්බර් මස එකලොස්වැනි දින සාර්ථක ලෙස නිමා විය . හෙළ හිරුවණ පදනම සහ UKRC මගින් සංවිදානය කරන ලද මෙම උත්සවයට Master Guide ආයතනයෙහි හි අනුග්‍රහය මෙම උත්සවය සාර්ථකව නිම කිරීමට ප්‍රබල ශක්තියක් විය.   මෙම අවස්ථාවට පුජනිය කොළොන්නාවේ සිරිසුමංගල ස්වාමින්වහන්සේ , පුජනිය සිංහපිටියේ සුගතවංශ හිමි , පුජනිය එල්ලාවල මේධානන්ද හිමි ,පුජනිය මානෑවේ විමලරත්න හිමි , පුජනිය බොරැල්ලේ සිරි සුමන හිමි ඇතුළු ග රුතර සංඝ රත්නය පෙරටුව ගරු පාර්ලිමේන්තු කතානායක තුමන් වන කරු ජයසුරිය මැතිතුමන් සහ මහා නගර සහ බස්නාහිර පළාත් සංවර්ධන කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය පාටලී චම්පික මැතිතුමන් ( Patali Champika Ranawaka ) සහ උපහාර ලැබීමට ආචාර්ය සුරිය ගුණසේකර මහතා , ආචාර්ය මිරැන්ඩෝ ඔබේසේකර මහතා , තිලකා රන්දෙනිය මහත්මිය , අරිසෙන් අහුබුදු ශුරින් වෙනුවෙන් එම මැතිනිය , ලයනල් රන්වල ශුරින් වෙනුවෙන් එම මැතිනිය , ආචාර්ය වෛදය දහම් රත්වත්තේ මහතා , ආචාර්ය චන්දය ජයරත්න මහතා ඇතුළුව තවත් විශාල මහත්වරුන් සහ මහත්...

SL2College is a Volunteering organization which focus on provides unbiased information about education . Joining with SL2college  is the one of my life opportunity. most important thing is I got to chance to meet people , A lot of people , which is I love always. Everything started with I came to NSBM as undergraduate, after attending few hackathons and Google Student ambassador events and Idea Mart API development workshops , I got to know this awesome person call Shafraz Rahim , He was in my senior batch and already working with sl2college. One day Shafraz posted on facebook that they taking volunteers for Voices , which is Australian education fair organize by SL2college . of course I went there with my buddy Tharindu Samarasinghe ( bawwa) . It was cool , after few months volunteering and enjoying my life experience with sl2college family,  I got chance to working with Sl2college web team where I met Rashmika , Nayana , Navaka and others , I got cha...