Behnam Esfahbod | بهنام اسفهبد

As of 2013…

• I live in New York City.
• Zero-Width Non-Joiner (فاصله‌ی مجازی) and Harf (حرف) are my blogs on the Internet, Open Source Software, Persian language and Persian computing.
• Photography is one of my hobbies: my light-field (Lytro) photos.

Projects

Projects I coordinate or co-maintain:

• Persian-Computing, Persian language in the computing world.
• L10n:Teams:fa, the Persian localization team of Mozilla.
• Jalali GCal, Persian calendar on Google Calendar's web interface.
• Python LFP Reader, a library for Lytro live picture files with a 3D viewer.
• Rira, the Persian digital library.

Other projects I have contributed to:

• 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.

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

• UDHR in Unicode, Persian (HTML, PDF).
• Wikipedia (more).

and more on code.behnam.es and my GitHub profile.

Standards

• Persian Information Interchange and Display Mechanism, using Unicode, ISIRI 6219, Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran. [orig]
• Layout of Persian Letters and Symbols on Computer Keyboards, ISIRI 9147, Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran. [orig].
• Internationalized Domain Names, Persian, IRNIC, the ccTLD Registry or Iran.

Affiliations

I support and am a member of following organizations, mostly active in open standards, free/open source software, and Internet governance:

• The Unicode Consortium.
• 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 some name at behnam dot es.
• My PGP key fingerprint is “3E7F B4B6 6F4C A8AB 9BB9 7520 5701 CA40 259E 0F8B” (public key).
• I am occasionally online on IRC as behnam on irc.freenode.net, irc.gnome.org, and irc.mozilla.org.