Here's some great news that I (on behalf of the Linux For You team) wanted to share with all of you...
The Gist...
Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS sponsored these awards by taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5 lakh-- where each winner will get Rs 25,000!
Here's what M.R. Rajagopalan, director, NRCFOSS, shad to say w.r.t. the awards, Through such incentives, NRCFOSS expects to stimulate young minds, encourage innovative contributions to the FOSS ecosystem and address the digital divide."
Complete details about the awards announcement can be had at: http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm
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Here is the complete list of the winners:
* Hindawi Indic Programming System * Zmanda Recover Manager for MySQL * Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech System * Fedora (games and localization spins) * KDE 3.5 Hindi * MayaVi * Jtrac * DeepOfix * Tuxtype * WanEM * Mac4Lin * OpenLX * Anjuta * HarvestMan * Get it I say * KIWI-LTSP * Ffmpeginstall * Belenix * TVTK: Traited VTK * GNUSim8085
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For more details about the FOSS India Awards, visit: www.openits.com/awards/
Soon, registration will be opened up for FOSS India Awards 2009...
Regards, Niraj Sahay
On Feb 19, 2008 6:30 PM, niraj@efyindia.com wrote:
Here's some great news that I (on behalf of the Linux For You team) wanted to share with all of you...
The Gist...
Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS sponsored these awards by taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5 lakh-- where each winner will get Rs 25,000!
Here's what M.R. Rajagopalan, director, NRCFOSS, shad to say w.r.t. the awards, "Through such incentives, NRCFOSS expects to stimulate young minds, encourage innovative contributions to the FOSS ecosystem and address the digital divide."
Complete details about the awards announcement can be had at: http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm
<snippet from the announcement>
Here is the complete list of the winners:
- Hindawi Indic Programming System
- Zmanda Recover Manager for MySQL
- Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech System
- Fedora (games and localization spins)
- KDE 3.5 Hindi
- MayaVi
- Jtrac
- DeepOfix
- Tuxtype
- WanEM
- Mac4Lin
- OpenLX
- Anjuta
- HarvestMan
- Get it I say
- KIWI-LTSP
- Ffmpeginstall
- Belenix
- TVTK: Traited VTK
- GNUSim8085
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For more details about the FOSS India Awards, visit: www.openits.com/awards/
Soon, registration will be opened up for FOSS India Awards 2009...
And I am willing to guess these packages will be included on the CD in your March 2008 issue, along with a good description of each in the magazine. I am surprised to see a Fedora Games spin in there...you might probably think it's there to entice the teenagers or something.
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Nishit Dave wrote:
| And I am willing to guess these packages will be included on the CD in | your March 2008 issue, along with a good description of each in the | magazine. I am surprised to see a Fedora Games spin in there...you | might probably think it's there to entice the teenagers or something.
Umm... is it only teenagers who play games on computers ? :) Given the legal hurdles that this one needed to go through, I'd say that the Games and Localization spins are a good thing
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You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan
On Feb 19, 2008 8:14 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com wrote:
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Umm... is it only teenagers who play games on computers ? :) Given the legal hurdles that this one needed to go through, I'd say that the Games and Localization spins are a good thing
Reasoning: I am not a teenager by a long shot. I don't play games. Therefore teenagers play games. Works within certain very tight bounds.
On Feb 20, 2008 4:29 PM, Nishit Dave stargazer.dave@gmail.com wrote:
Reasoning: I am not a teenager by a long shot. I don't play games. Therefore teenagers play games. Works within certain very tight bounds.
I am not teenagers, but I play Games :P
On Feb 19, 2008 6:30 PM, niraj@efyindia.com wrote:
For more details about the FOSS India Awards, visit: www.openits.com/awards/
Hmm. This link is not working :P
On Feb 19, 2008 6:30 PM, niraj@efyindia.com wrote:
Here's some great news that I (on behalf of the Linux For You team) wanted to share with all of you...
The Gist...
Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS sponsored these awards by taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5 lakh-- where each winner will get Rs 25,000!
Here's what M.R. Rajagopalan, director, NRCFOSS, shad to say w.r.t. the awards, "Through such incentives, NRCFOSS expects to stimulate young minds, encourage innovative contributions to the FOSS ecosystem and address the digital divide."
Complete details about the awards announcement can be had at: http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm
<snippet from the announcement>
Here is the complete list of the winners:
<snip>
- KDE 3.5 Hindi
who took the award for this?
Karunakar
On Feb 19, 2008 6:30 PM, niraj@efyindia.com wrote:
Here is the complete list of the winners:
- Hindawi Indic Programming System
I never got 'download' link working for this project! :P
- Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech System
Right Candidate!
- KDE 3.5 Hindi
When Karunkar is wondering who has taken this awards, I too!
- Tuxtype
Huh? I don't see any Indians at: http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/dev/
- Anjuta
- HarvestMan
- GNUSim8085
Perfect! Go go go!