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By an anonymous user on Jun. 06, 2008

BTW, what the F$#k have you contributed???

By Raghu Chetan on Jun. 06, 2008

@cmon - check out http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344_3-5701861.html - maybe that should help answer your question :)

By OSAf W on Jun. 09, 2008

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...

By Riyana Singh on Jun. 09, 2008

@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.

By Riyana Singh on Jun. 09, 2008

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.

By Riyana Singh on Jun. 09, 2008

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.

By Riyana Singh on Jun. 09, 2008

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!!

By Owen Walker on Jun. 10, 2008

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.

By Kanchana Wickremasinghe on Nov. 12, 2008

China - RedFlag does contribute to the Asinux development. Although the focus is North Asia, I think eventually they will compete with companies such as Red Hat etc.

I believe both countries do contribute in-directly. Although they may not have major OSS project. Remember they do have their own issues to resolve so the OSS contributions for them may be local focus rather than global focus, which is not a bad thing for them and the rest of us to learn.

I also know that they have several companies involved in supporting Open Source projects which weren't originated from India.

PS: I am not an Indian, however I closely watch this space.

By Indian channels on Oct. 25, 2009

DimDim have open source version of thier product and most of the team are Indians.