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Flockstar Spotlight: Dinesh Cyanam

I recently wrote Dinesh a Linked in endorsement:

"In only a month, Dinesh has risen to be amoung the top five independent QA contributors that Flock Inc has had. The main reasons are:

• Communication: online and bug reports
• Friendly disposition
• Initiative
• Thoroughness
• Familarity with interfaces of both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and ability to articulate when the application is not following the models of those interfaces"
  

Here is what Dinesh has to say about himself.

1) A little about yourself?

Well, I am 19. Live in NJ but basically I am from Hyderabad, India. Came to US in 2004 to do my undergrad. Currently, I am a Sophomore at Rutgers University pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering. Hmm...what else? Well, I guess being a Gemini, I have this quest for knowledge and as each day passes I feel that the world has gone forward a lot but I have just learn't a little :( One can't learn everything in this world. Can they?

2) What led you to get involved with the Flock project?

I first heard about Flock on digg.com and tried it out but it was very buggy back then. I gave it a try once again in January and I was very impressed by the progress it had made and its been my browser since then. One day I happened to read the Flockstars article about Jake Dahn and I must admit that Jake inspired me a lot. I always wanted to contribute to the Open Source world and bug testing/reporting for Flock was my best bet.

3) How does your contribution to Flock relate to the other activities in your life?

Well, I work at our university's computing help desk and I guess writing tickets/bugs comes naturally to me.

4) What do you get out of contributing to Flock?

Flock being a small community, I have met really amazing and fun loving people, who are always ready to help you out and answer your questions and who work all night just for a milestone release. Also, when Flock goes mainstream and when I see lots of people using it, I can say to myself "Hey that photo uploader is working the way it should because of me" :p

5) Another open source project that you really appreciate?

Songbird has impressed me a lot althought its still in it's Proof-of-Concept stage. Integrating everything into a music player thats based on Firefox is really cool. Flock and Songbird are a lot similar in what they deliver to the end user and I must say both of them are headed in the right direction, i.e., Web 2.0 and beyond.

5) What is in the near future for you?

Hmm...near future...well I have two more years of college and after that I plan to work for around 3-4 here in US and then go back to India.