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About Me

സന്തോഷ് തോട്ടിങ്ങല്‍ | Santhosh Thottingal : Free software Activist and Developer

Brief Introduction

I am Santhosh, a B-Tech Computer Science graduate from Palakkad, Kerala. Currently working for a major IT company in chennai in the technical architect group. But I am better known for my contributions to Free and Opensource  projects particularly in Indic language computing. Dhvani , Swanalekha, Silpa, Spellcheckers based on Aspell, Hunspell, Hyphenation rules for many Indian languages, Input methods, Encoding converters etc are a few projects to name that I am working on. I am an active developer in Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. I am the co-ordinator of Openoffice Indic Regional Language group. You can read this blog to find out the details  of the projects I am working on.

The preferred way to contact me is via email. Use the telephone if it is urgent.

Mail: santhosh dot thottingal at  gmail dot com
Phone: 09884213420
PGP Fingerprint: 4834 CB06 156B 98DA 78C1 45C6 5FAD 3B01 538C 7C74
Public Key: 0x538C7C74

Native Place:  Palakkad District, Kerala
Current Location: Chennai
IRC Nick: santhosh (#smc-project, #dhvani, #indlinux, #kde-in, #fedora-india

Snail Mail:

SA, 2nd Block, Jains Apoorva Apartments, Pallavaram, Chennai-43, India

Home: Thottingal, P.O Vakkadappuram, Palakkad,-678595, Kerala, India (please Dont sent mail to this address)