• Andrey   Extremely incompetent with computers at first, he was transformed by participating in Linux Networking class taught by Manu and by taking interest in high-end hardware. He joined Blue Light in July 2011 as an apprentice system administrator and soon took all hardware-related tasks upon himself, fuelling fueling his motivation with obsessive belief that only quality hardware can provide a safe platform for any computing tasks, open source or not. Interests: hardware, remote administration, networking, non-fanatical approach to operating systems. 
• Anand   My passion is doing research on Open Source technologies. I have years of experience in systems administration on Windows and Linux operating systems and some knowledge in web development tools / templates like Joomla and Wordpress.
• Bharathy  Bharathy   Started to work with Linux from my school times in Future School, Auroville. Taking care of the Financial Service servers, and the Town Hall network and supporting Town Hall computer users.
• Charles   Came to computing in 1982 from power station operations. Initially in engineering software, segued into systems administration.  Started on UNIX in 1992 and Linux in 2008. Linux Questions' contributor catkin. Special interests: bash shellscript, documentation, quality processes, "work smart, not hard". 
• Damien 10 years of good experience as a Software Engineer in Paris until 2009 in the mainstream world (Windows, Oracle, ASP, mysql, php, Perl ...). Shifted to Ubuntu as a user with Blue Light in 2009; no way to return ... Part of Blue Light to conceive and develop web applications in FOSS environment (mostly Apache, mysql, php, Jquery ...). Like to insist on conception and documentation ...
  
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• Daniel   Came into touch with IT world in 1985 when dealing with the programmable calculator MK-54. Since then computers became his love and good friends. Supporting Town Hall computer users.
• Dyuman   Started off playing around with Visual Basic in Windows, shifted to Linux around 4 years ago. Currently doing Linux system administration, networking, programming and a bit of electronics.
  
• Kaushik   Has been a C++ developer in Windows Visual Studio for over 10 years. Moved to Unix a year back. Now works only on Linux and FOSS. 
• Manu   Working with Linux since 1998. Interest in system and network administration. Has a passion for Maths. 
• Phillippe   IT Engineer from 1994, never done anything else than working with computers. Dealt with system administration, project management, development: application architect, Python guru, open source evangelist.
• Ravindra   Joined recently in August 2013 having 15 years of Software Development and Consultancy work using Mainframes OS/390, Windows OS and also familiar with UNIX OS.
• Sam  Spent most of his time in front of a screen since he was 2 years old. He touched a computer for the first time at 11 and fell in love with the green screen of the Amstrad CPC with which he spent the next 2 years programming in Basic. The drama started with Windows 95. He stayed with the Microsoft OS and successors for the next 15 years to finally shift to Linux and become systems administrator in 2010.

Former members

• Biswa   In technical language; 'An Exception' and often use type-casting. Just started my career with Blue Light in Auroville, where most people end their career.  Left in September 2013
  
• Igor  Active member in Bluelight for 4 years: system administration, user support, finances and administrationRamachandra  I started using the computer from 1992 as required for the school teacher mainly working with Word and Excel. Then went to Pondicherry to learn computer formally where I learn systematically how to use computer properly. There I learn Tally, again new version of Word and Excel. Here in Auroville I used Auroville billing program from Luc. I learned computer as I needed for my work. I am always passionate about learn new skill from the computer. Now I am in Blue Light where I could see vast possibilities to learn hardware, software and many more. With my routine work if time permits I will start with hardware and networking and I will see where it leads to ...
  

External consultants

Manu   Working with Linux since 1998. Interest in system and network administration. Has a passion for Maths. Founding member of Blue Light. Left in February 2014.

 The team alphabetically during the last ten years