Behnam Esfahbod

My name is “Behnam Esfahbod” (“بهنام اسفهبد” in Persian) and as of 2012:

• I live in New York City.
• Work as a research assistant.
• My PGP key fingerprint is “3E7F B4B6 6F4C A8AB 9BB9 7520 5701 CA40 259E 0F8B” (public key).
• Write blogs irregularly; “Zero-Width Non-Joiner” (zwnj.org) is my technical blog on GNOME, Mozilla, Persian Language and the Internet.

Find more on social network profiles: Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Googler Reader, and Last.fm.

Projects

Projects I coordinate or co-maintain:

• python-fribidi, a wrap of GNU FriBidi in Python.
• Jalali GCal, Persian calendar on Google Calendar's web interface.

• Rira, the Persian digital library.
• Persian-Computing, Persian language in the computing world.

Other projects I have contributed to:

• L10n:Teams:fa, the Persian localization team of Mozilla.
• Gucharmap, the GNOME Unicode character map.
• Persian Translation Team of Ubuntu.

• The Freedesktop.org Projects (more).
• The Mozilla Project (more).
• The GNOME Project (more).
• Ubuntu Project (more).

• GNU FriBidi.
• The FarsiWeb Project.
• The FarsiTex Project.
• DejaVu Fonts.

• The Arabic Script IDN Working Group (ASIWG).
• Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (Revised) (IDNAbis).

• UDHR in Unicode, Persian (HTML, PDF).
• Wikipedia (more).
• The One Laptop Per Child Project.
• The WordForge Project.

and more details on:

• GitHub.
• Ohloh.
• Google Code.

Standards

• “Persian Information Interchange and Display Mechanism, using Unicode”
  ISIRI 6219, Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran.
• “Layout of Persian Letters and Symbols on Computer Keyboards”
  ISIRI 9147, Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran.
• Internationalized Domain Names, Persian
  IRNIC, the ccTLD Registry or Iran.
• ZWNJ restriction rules proposal based on Unicode TR31,
  ASIWG, Arabic Script IDN Working Group.

Affiliations

I support and am a member of following organizations, mostly active in Free/Open Source software and Internet privacy and security:

• Internet Society (ISOC) and its New York Chapter (ISOC-NY).
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
• ICANN At-Large and Non-Commercial Users Stakeholder Group (NCSG).
• New York Technology Council (NYTECH).
• Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
• Software in the Public Interest (SPI).

Contact

• Email me to behnam at esfahbod dot info.
• I am occasionally online on IRC as behnam on irc.freenode.net, irc.gnome.org, and irc.mozilla.org.

© Copyright 2002–2012 Behnam Esfahbod — esfahbod.info