By: Arjuna Rao Chavala

The author is chief consultant of Arc Alternatives, which works to catalyse transformation of IT/engineering enterprises with a focus in the areas of IT, program/engineering management and open source. He co-founded Wikimedia India and served as its first president. He also serves as the WG Chair for the IEEE-SA project P1908.1–-‘Virtual keyboard standard for Indic languages’. He can be reached through his website http:// arcalter.com or by email to arjunaraoc@arcalter.com.