{"id":8226,"date":"2017-08-09T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2017-08-09T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:44:30","slug":"friend-add-ons-santosh-viswanatham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2017\/08\/09\/friend-add-ons-santosh-viswanatham\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend of Add-ons: Santosh Viswanatham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our newest Friend of Add-ons is <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/viswanathamsantosh\/\">Santosh Viswanatham<\/a>! Santosh attended a regional event hosted by Mozilla Rep <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/ananthulasrikar\/\">Srikar Ananthula<\/a> in 2012 and has been an active leader in the community ever since. \u00a0Having previously served as a Firefox Student Ambassador and Regional Ambassador Lead, he is currently a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/TechSpeakers\">Tech Speaker<\/a> and a member of the Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.mozilla.community\/\">Campus Clubs<\/a> Advisory Committee, where he is helping develop an activity for building extensions for Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Santosh has brought his considerable enthusiasm for open source software to the add-ons community. Earlier this year, he served a six-month term as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Add-ons\/AMO\/Policy\/Featured\">Featured Add-ons Advisory Board<\/a>, where he helped nominate and select extensions to be featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\">addons.mozilla.org<\/a> each month. Additionally, Santosh hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/isantoshv.wordpress.com\/2017\/06\/22\/firefox-add-ons-overnight-hackathon-hyderabad\/\">a hackathon<\/a> in Hyderabad, India, where 100 developers spent the night creating more than 20 extensions.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to describe his experience contributing to Mozilla, Santosh says:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIt has been a wonderful opportunity to work with like-minded incredible people. Contributing to Mozilla gave me an opportunity to explore myself and stretched my limits working around super cool technologies. I learned tons of things about technology and communities, improved my skill set, received global exposure, and made friends for a lifetime by contributing to Mozilla.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In his free time, Santosh enjoys dining out at roadside eateries, spending time with friends, and watching TV shows and movies.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Santosh, and thank you for all of contributions!<\/p>\n<p>Are you a contributor to the add-ons community or know of someone who should be recognized? Please be sure to add them to our<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Add-ons\/Contribute\/Recognition\"> Recognition Wiki<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our newest Friend of Add-ons is Santosh Viswanatham! 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