On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear All, > > > Our Friend, and member of This List Shyam Karanatt ended his life > himself yesterday afternoon. Still most of his friends are still > shocked and not recovered from the pain of this news. > Shyam was a very active Free Software advocate and Activist. I like > to recall his major contributions to Free Software Movement in India > > He was known to me initially through Google Summer of Code candiate > for Swathanthra Malayalam Computing , for building the prototype for > Malayalam Speech Recognition system. and he started that with a > project named sharika based on CMU-SPINX library. He become an active > volunteer of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and part of various other > LUGS like Swathanthra Software Users Group Malappuram, Foss Group in > MES, FSUG- Thrissur etc. He become the project admin for Translating > GNU.ORG webpages to Malayalam, and made a lot of progress with that > work . He involved with Organising Various FOSS programmes in his > college and varouos cities in Kerala . > > Shyam initiated the Syllabus Review page in FCI Wikia > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Syllabus_Review and compiled most of the > data, in association with Venkiy . Which become a major intervention > too later. He took a major role on realising the idea of GNU labs and > implimenting the first functioning GNU lab in MES kuttippuram > http://gnulabs.org/ > > Shyam was a good speaker in various FOSS conferences like FOSS.IN , > Mukth.in etc and associate with Various FOSS Groups like IndLinux, > SMC, FSUG-Thrissur, FSUG-Calicut, SSUG Malappurm etc > > what a loss to the community!!!, his contribution is really a motivation for others and i can never forget his way of interacting with students when he came to share his experience in GSOC few years back in our institution. > His funeral is at Ramapuram, Pala, Kottayam District today > > Shyam's Photo From Niyam's collection > http://www.flickr.com/photos/niyam/2399712870/ > > ~ in the memory of a good friend > Anivar > > -- > "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and > 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from > other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >
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