[Bangalore-pm] Article on Gurusamy Sarathy in Wikipedia

[SundaraRaman R]

Hello mongers,

Gurusamy Sarathy, for those who didn't know, was a major contributor to
Perl for several years, and was especially important in bringing Perl to
Windows. He's well-known to many in Perl circles, but it seems that
Wikipedia has no article on him as of now.
I've gathered some info I could find on him in a userspace-article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundaryourfriend/Gurusamy_Sarathy , but
I couldn't find anything about his personal background, his current online
presence (twitter, blog, etc.) and most importantly, any mentions from
popular sources (magazines, newspapers, major companies, etc.) that would
help assert his notability. Details on his specific contributions to Perl
are also hard to find (there are mentions here and there e.g.
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=861966 hints at his work on Prototypes,
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhack.html about his testing guidelines, but I'm
sure there's tons more that would make good additions to the article).

Since he seems to be of Indian origin I hoped some of you might be
interested in contributing, if so any links (or even better, non-online
sources) you can find about Sarathy (other than the ones I've added in the
"References" section in the above link) would be appreciated. Please feel
free to edit them into the article itself, but if you feel you don't have
the time or wiki-experience to do it, directly mailing me the info would
also be of great help.

I feel a bit proud as an Indian every time I see Sarathy's contributions
mentioned surrounding Perl, so wish to see them brought to light in a
better manner... Hope we can together create a Wiki quality article as our
thanks to him. :)

PS: Once YAPC::India materializes, it would be great if we could find a way
to invite Sarathy for a talk there, that'd be a good boost to the
conference!

-- 
! Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
http://www.google.com/profiles/sundaryourfriend
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