India (and China) produces a bazillion software developers/engineers every year - many of whom use open source extensively BUT I don't think I've heard of a single FOSS project originating in India (or China)???
This isn't some racist flame bait - I have many Indian & Chinese friends but was curious if I am just being ignorant or is there some truth in my hypothesis...
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Add AnswerBy an anonymous user on Jun. 06, 2008
BTW, what the F$#k have you contributed???
@cmon - check out http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344_3-5701861.html - maybe that should help answer your question :)
I have been following DimDim for sometime. They do have a center at Hyderabad with a team working out from there. They have a open source version of thier product and most in the team are Indians.
http://www.dimdim.com/aboutus/contactus.html
There are more but might not be as much in the news yet.
http://open-source.onestop.net/2008/04/dimdim-worlds-first-free-web-meet...
@cmon - Ignorance is NOT an excuse! Here's 1:
Hindawi (hindawi.in) is a multilingual programming language tool that allows users to write computer programmes in languages other than English. In other words, Hindawi breaks the English language barrier and lets users do programming in their mother tongue.
These include equivalents of C, C++, lex, yacc, assembly, BASIC, LOGO etc in Hindi, Bengali, Gujrati, Assamese and other Indian languages.
These languages are called Hindi C or Hindi assembly or Bangla C or Bangla assembly etc for common understanding. They even have different names; such as, the equivalent programming language of C in Indian languages is Shaili Guru, Indic C++ is Shaili Shraeni, Indic yacc is Shaili Vyaakaran and so on.
However, these languages are syntax-compatible with their traditional English counterparts and can, therefore, utilise the existing libraries such as glibc etc. In a manner similar to the way C++ is syntax compatible to C and hence can use most of the C libraries.
Here's #2:
WANem is a Wide Area Network Emulator, meant to provide a real experience of a Wide Area Network/Internet, during application development/testing over a LAN environment.
Typically application developers develop applications on a LAN while the intended purpose for the same could be, clients accessing the same over the WAN or even the Internet.
WANem thus allows the application development team to setup a transparent application gateway which can be used to simulate WAN characteristics like Network delay, Packet loss, Packet corruption, Disconnections, Packet re-ordering, Jitter, etc.
WANem was developed by three software professionals Manoj Nambiar, Hemanta Kumar Kalita and Debadatta Mishra all from India's largest IT company TCS.
The software was built to provide WAN access to the entire team since other WAN emulators were hardware-based, expensive and available to only a select few in test labs.
Here's # 3:
Dhvani is text-to-speech system for Indian languages. It is a framework to develop Indian Language text to speech system. It can serve as a backend for speech synthesisers in Indian Languages, in conjunction with a language-specific text-to-phonetics module.
The software uses images in conjunction with voice output in local languages to make the computing device accessible to a larger section of the Indian population.
Currently, Dhvani has a phonetics-to-speech engine which is capable of generating intelligible speech from a suitable phonetic description in any Indian language. In addition, it is capable of converting UTF-8 text in Hindi and Kannada to this phonetic description, and then speaking it out using the Phonetics-to-Speech engine.
Current C- GNU/Linux implementation supports Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Punjabi, Tamil and Oriya. The project was started by Simputer project head Dr Ramesh Hariharan, IISc, Bengaluru.
There are a lot more but here's just a sampler to quell any false notions you are trying to percolate through the community.
And no - I'm not trying to hog OStatic points! :)
By an anonymous user on Jun. 09, 2008
wow @angel! 3 whole apps!!
Clarification: Working for an IT services company on Opensource applications for large Fortune 500 clients DOESN'T qualify as "contributing" to FOSS!!
By an anonymous user on Jun. 11, 2008
I have not heard about any other Indian company mentioned here apart from DimDim.
Webyog (www.webyog.com), a Bangalore based company has a very popular open source MySQL GUI.
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