Behnam Esfahbod

Assumptions

My name is

• English: “Behnam Esfahbod”,
• Persian: “بهنام اسفهبد”,

and as of 2009

• I live in Tehran, Iran;
• I'm a freelance FLOSS developer;
• My PGP key fingerprint is “3E7F B4B6 6F4C A8AB 9BB9 7520 5701 CA40 259E 0F8B” (public key);
• Here is my résumé (PDF).

Claims

I write weblogs

• “Zero-Width Non-Joiner” (zwnj.org) is my English technical weblog about GNOME, Mozilla, Persian Language, Internet, etc;
• “Virtual Space” (zwnj.info) is my photo stream;
• “Unwrittens” is my Persian poetic weblog;

and here are my

• Shared news, weblog, and photoblog posts (English and Persian);
• Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, Last.fm, Orkut profiles.

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;

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

• Rira, the Persian digital library;
• Persian-Computing, a place to discuss Persian Language issues in the computing world;

Other projects I contribute to:

• 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:

• 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 Dot-IR ccTLD Registry;
• ZWNJ restriction rules proposal based on Unicode TR31,
  ASIWG, Arabic Script IDN Working Group;

Stuff I Use

More than projects I work on, I use these stuff in life, study, and work:

• VIM, the editor;
• Tor, the anonymity provider;

• Protégé, the ontology editor and knowledge-base framework;
• KIG, the interactive geometry drawer.

Contact

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

© Copyright 2002–2009, Behnam Esfahbod — esfahbod.info