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parent 179 851b3fe8f30c
child 203 f6123d1edf06
--- a/project/templates/talk/speakers.html	Fri Oct 29 15:37:13 2010 +0530
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     <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Prabhu Ramachandran"
         src="/static/img/prabhu_ramachandran.jpg" /></div>
        <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Prabhu Ramachandran</h3>
-       He is the architect of Mayavi (3D visualization in Python) and is
-       currently a faculty member at the Department of Aerospace Engineering,
-       Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
+       Dr Prabhu has been a faculty member at the department of Aerospace Engineering, 
+       IIT Bombay since 2005.  He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras.  
+       His research interests are primarily in particle methods and applied scientific 
+       computing.  He has been active in the FOSS community for more than a decade.  
+       He co-founded the Indian Linux User Group - Chennai (ILUGC) in 1998 and is the 
+       creator and lead developer of the (FOSS-India-award-winning) Mayavi and TVTK 
+       Python packages. Prabhu has contributed to the Python wrappers of the 
+       Visualization Toolkit (VTK). He is an active member of the SciPy community and 
+       a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). In 2009, he gave the keynote 
+       address at India's first PyCon.  Prabhu currently heads the FOSSEE project 
+       (http://fossee.in) which aims to spread the use of Python (and other Free 
+       Software) in the curriculum.  
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