[Reader-list] Searching for contributors from India to GNU/Linux (fwd)

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

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Subject: QUERY: Searching for Indian contributors to GNU/Linux (fwd)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 12:09:45 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org>

Dear Moderator, I would be grateful if you could kindly forward this
message to members of your mailing list. Thank you very much. Frederick.

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Dear friends, Continuing what I've been doing over the past few months --
on a rather unorganised basis, my plans are to now undertake a
more intensive search for Indians who have been contributing to
GNU/Linux projects.
This work is to be conducted over the next year, and is being supported by
a print media fellowship granted by Sarai, New Delhi
(http://www.sarai.net).
If you could offer some leads on how I could contact Indian programmers
(both in India or abroad) who have contributed to the GNU/Linux decade-old
project, I'd be very grateful.
In particular I'm looking for success stories that could convincingly show
that contributions (even if not widely noticed so far) have indeed come
up. Some such examples have already come my way; and from a
preliminary look it appears that the Indian contribution is much
more than currently known or appreciated.
Hopefully, a greater focus on this would prompt others in India to also
contribute to this exciting project in collaborative networking and
working together globally. Your help would be appreciated. As a
journalist without any programming skills whatsoever, one feels that this
is where one could contribute. Regards and best wishes, Frederick Noronha.
PS: Will be visiting IT.com on Nov 4-5. If we could meet in Bangalore, do
drop me a line with your contact number.
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