---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anant Narayanan anant@kix.in Date: २००७ अप्रैल १६ ०९:५७ Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org
There are few other Indians into SoC '07 too (some of them are on GLUG-BOM) -- Sayamindu Dasgupta (GNOME), Debarshi Ray (Fedora), Rakesh Pandit (The GNU Project), Ria Das [aka Ms. Kushal Das] (Fedora), Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc.
Not just a few, I am proud to say that we have about 60 Indian students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects.
A non-comprehensive list (may have missed out the NRIs): Name, Mentor, Project. (Quite a few Indian mentors out there too):
1) Jasleen Singh, Arockiasamy Mohanraj, Design and implementation a better document inspector 2) Ravinder Reddy, Katherine Marsden, Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs 3) Baishampayan Ghose, Michael Philip Sparks, Extending the web- server component in Kamaelia to make it useful as a general purpose web-server component 4) Anant Narayanan, Devon H. O'Dell, Alternative Implementations of 9P: PHP and JavaScript 5) Tara Gilliam, Michael Philip Sparks, Visual Editor for Creation & Composition of Shard Components 6) Arun Raghavan, Joe Shaw, A Xesam-based D-Bus interface for Beagle 7) Dawn Thomas, Rick Riolo , Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design 8) Nitin Gupta, Dr. Tarique Sani, AJAX Support in Coppermine with an API 9) Thejaswi Puthraya, Simon Blanchard, Implementing Check Constraints on Models 10) Neil Joshi, Eugene Lazutkin, Pseudo 3-D Charting 11) Amila Sampath, Theodore Serbinski, Designing a new core theme for Drupal 12) Prashant Deva, Philippe Ombredanne, New Eclipse update manager 13) Udayan Kumar, Martin Connor, Porting Etherboot drivers to gPXE 14) Akhil Kumar Meshram, Pierrick Brihaye, eXist eXtension to teXt Search 15) Debarshi Ray, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, An offline package update/ installation facility for Pirut. 16) Ria Das, Jeff Sheltren, Publication of all man and info pages for each release through a web interface 17) Vivek B, Yutaka Niibe, Designing an educational microprocessor and led display using the same (in verilog). 18) Attilio Rao, Roberson, Rewriting lockmgr(9) 19) Swati Goyal, Matthew John Toseland, Improving Search in FreeNet 20) Srivatsan, Florent Daignière, DOS resistant link level encryption using JFKi key management protocol 21) Uday, Jack Bates, Web based Image Manipulation 22) Ramnath R Iyer, Dirk Haun, Web services API for Geeklog 23) Raghavendra Narasimhan V, Christoph Egger, OpenGL support for GGI 24) Vikram Kumar V B, Christoph Egger, Improve XGGI by implementing some X extensions. 25) Srijak Rijal, Sam Vilain, Gittorrent Server and Peer 26) Sayamindu Dasgupta, Federico Mena-Quintero, Extending the lockdown framework in GNOME and making it even more deployment friendly 27) Imran Patel, Xan López Saborido, Integrating Epiphany Bookmarks and Browsing History For GNOME-wide Access 28) Rakesh Pandit, Nagarjuna Gadiraju, Graphical navigation/ representation of knowledge base; and interfacing with other knowledge systems. 29) Chintan Agarwal, Derek Atkins, QIF Importer Rewrite 30) Krishna Kishore Annapureddy, François Revol, Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches 31) Avi Mehta, Rastin Mehr, Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework 32) Shivasharan Rao, Jonathan Riddell, SQL Code Generation and Enhanced Entity Relationship Models for Umbrello 33) Piyush Verma, Andreas Pakulat, Python Support for KDevelop4 34) Anirudh Ramesh, Cornelius Schumacher, Bridge the gap between KitchenSync and OpenSync 35) Sharon Myrtle Paradesi, Robert Kaye, Using Collaborative Filtering to generate Relationships between artists for MusicBrainz 36) Nidhi Rawal, Sebastien Pouliot, Gendarme: The problem finder 37) Mayank Jain, David Jesús Horat Flotats, Moodle Voice 38) Udit Sajjanhar, Petr Skoda, Secure RSS Feeds 39) Srirang G Dooddihal, Dan Mosedale, Implementing cross-session download resume 40) Kunal Kumar D Jain, Dietrich Ayala, Places: Indexing Visited Pages 41) K.Harishankaran, Nagappan, Firefox automation & Tinderbox integration 42) Sumantra R. Kundu, William Studenmund, A Framework For Enforcing QoS Inside the NetBSD UVM 43) Deepank Gupta, Werner Almesberger, Ad hoc communication via Bluetooth 44) Sashikanth Raju S Damaraju, Paul Biondich, Clinical Data Visualization Tools 45) Rahul Murmuria, William Sommerfeld, Porting Racoon2 to OpenSolaris 46) Amit Vyas, DongInn Kim, Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR 47) Siddharth Angrish, Simon Lin, Learning a Context Free Grammar by reading Corpus in a given language 48) Swanand Janardan Deodhar, Shashank T. Date, Framework for ETL and Data mining operations in Ruby 49) Shobhit Jindal, Pavel Tankov, SSH Support in SIP Communicator using JCraft SSH2 Java Implementation 50) Hiran V, Hussain K.H, Unicode Standard Malayalam Font 51) Antony Francis Maliakal, Anivar A Aravind, Akshara OCR 52) Shyam K, Santhosh Thottingal, Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam 53) Mobin M, Praveen A, MalluTux 54) Jinesh KJ, Suresh P, Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/ Linux 55) Sourav Pal, Jean-Paul Saman, RTSP Streaming Server in VLC 56) Nageswara Rao M, Abraham Moolenaar, Integrating vim editor with eclipse 57) Ishaan Dalal, Monty Montgomery, Sinusoidal coding for Ghost 58) Vandan Parikh, Ludovic Dubost, XWiki Offline 59) Nikhil N, Baiju Muthukadan, Run Zope 3 using Python 2.5 60) Gartheeban Ganeshapillai, Kaustubh Srikanth, Auto Completion of links
Best Regards, -- Anant -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers