By: Arjuna Rao Chavala

The author is an independent consultant in the areas of IT, program/ engineering management and open source. He was a cofounder and first president of Wikimedia India. He initiated the IEEE-SA standardisation initiative in the software space in India and currently serves as the WG Chair for the global IEEE-SA project P1908.1, ‘Virtual keyboard standard for Indic languages’. He can be reached through his website arjunaraoc.blogspot.in and Twitter ID @arjunaraoc.