Rudra Saraswat
About me
Hi, I’m Rudra Saraswat, a 14 y.o. tech nerd who loves to develop for Linux, maintains a homelab and uses Ubuntu and Arch. I’m an official Ubuntu member and the Creator and Project Leader of Ubuntu Unity (an official Ubuntu flavor), blendOS, Ubuntu Web, UbuntuEd, Gamebuntu and the other projects listed in the Projects section below. I love playing the musical instrument Tabla and I’m a Tabla Graduate (Bhaskar). I also love swimming, playing Lawn Tennis and Snooker.
Social
My Projects
Refer to The Register’s article at http://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/rudra_sarsawat_ubuntu_projects/ for a brief overview of my projects.
Sessions and streams
- I was interviewed by Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha at IndiaFOSS Conference held in July 2022 (http://youtu.be/ehKZh5DJ0yk?si=-lmhd3hy8B9IfBuj, http://twitter.com/FOSSUnited/status/1547233569143398400).
- Gave a talk on immutability and atomicity in Linux distributions at IIT Mandi on Sep 9, 2023 – http://events.canonical.com/event/35/contributions/283
- Gave a talk on immutable Linux systems at IndiaFOSS 3.0 in Bangalore on 29 Oct 2023 (http://youtu.be/rLV1mAkh5zo?feature=shared, http://indiafoss.net/2023/conference/schedule?day=2, http://indiafoss.net/2023/confirmed/e3f2ab10b7)
- Sponsored invitee at the Ubuntu Summit 2023 to be held in Riga, Latvia on 3-5 November 2023
- Sponsored invitee and speaker at the Ubuntu Summit 2022 held in Prague, Czech Republic on 7-9th November 2022 – http://events.canonical.com/event/2/contributions/88/ , http://events.canonical.com/event/2/contributions/108/ , http://events.canonical.com/event/2/contributions/136/
- Interviewed by the Linux Magazine in their November 2023 edition (Issue 276/2023) – http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2023/276/Distro-Walk-blendOS#article_f3
- Sponsored invitee and speaker at the Ubucon Asia Conference held in Seoul, South Korea on 26-27th November 2022 – http://2022.ubucon.asia/sessions/unity7_dev_contrib/
- I kicked off Ubuntu’s events at FOSDEM (one of the biggest open source developer events in Europe) in Feb, 2022 and gave talks on my projects ( http://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1489361109912064000).
- I was a Speaker at last year’s Ubucon Asia Conference (http://2021.ubucon.asia/sessions/hacking_on_unity7_and_unityx/).
- I am a host on Ubuntu’s official channel – Ubuntu OnAir (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9M9xcRtvvA, http://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1468315151086624768).
- I was interviewed by
niccoloveof the KDE Plasma team in May 2022 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc6gGs2kM4c - I was interviewed by Destination Linux Network’s Front Page Linux in July 2020 – http://frontpagelinux.com/news/linux-plusplus-issue-21/
- Attended the DebConf 2023 at Kochi (Sep’2023) – http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/a-teenagers-passion-for-open-source-operating-systems/article67291812.ece