hi Vinayak, nice to see such a quick response. well, I think it should not be a big trouble to find programmers for this project. firstly, there are a lot of univercity level and pg level students doing a lot of project on the same track of linus developing the first linux kernel. many such developers can be gathered. secondly, we all can unite and find sources for funding which are very much available with IIT Incubator or tcs for that matter. since we are paying people any ways, they will work for this project. by the way tell me some thing more about kde-india? how does it work? how many members approx are there? can you give me the email id to subscribe? and I don't intend to ignite a desktop fire flame, but can any one provide data on weather KDE is used more on common linux desktops or gnome? any comparison? again this is just to know the stats? Krishnakant.