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Several organizations of the Sri Lankan IT industry, along with the Lanka Software Foundation and Lanka Linux User Group have worked around the clock for the last couple of weeks to create a set of applications to manage the Tsunami recovery program (URL not given to avoid being slashdotted). We made them Free and Open Source from the beginning, and most of the code are already in SourceForge.

If you see the front page of the set of applications we are putting together, you will find that the whole Sri Lankan IT industry is collaborating in harmony. For example, our company has spared some of her top caliber individuals including the Chief Software Architect and the Associate Chief Software Architect, and also the members of the R&D team (including myself who got involved in a part of the project) to work full time on this effort, and most of us work 18-24 hours a day for the last many days.

We will try to build these appls in a very generic way and will [soon] host them on SourceForge as Free Software (Open Source, if you like to call it that way ;-)), so that other governments / organizations can also make use of them. Please look forward!

How about Ramanujan's equation for PI? It's very simple, but has got some really interesting numbers. A graphical version is available here.

1/PI = sqrt(8) / 9801 * sum (n = 0 to infinity) (((4n)! [ 1103 + 26390 n ])/ ((n!)^4 * 396^(4n)))

i would like to know. when and where did you promote it? how come you guys didn't give it the kind of promotion it deserves (media and all that).

We tried to give publicity as much as possible. But don't forget that we are just a group of individuals and not even a registered organization, and we don't have any budgets for a huge marketing campaign. And we don't want to do it either. We have been helping people on our mailing lists and other events without making much of a noice like many others do. Please check our site for more details.

last time i tried to join the Computer Professional's Club or whatever you call your little exclusive coterie i was told that since i don't have a degree i can't join.

You have been mistaken. This is not that. Anyone can join LKLUG (just subscribing to the mailing list would do). We don't have those hard and fast `rules and regulations' etc. Specifically, I don't have a digree either. ;-)

but as far as i know, the free software groups here are just like the rest of the organisations, full of internal politics and backstabbing

Please spend a bit of time on our mailing lists and the web site to see if there is any internal politics or beurocracies in our group. Hope you will find enough to change your mind.

We have created a nice Sinhala Linux interface. And we did it by our own interest. All of us are working for different organizations, and we found time in the night and weekends to do this.

Sorry that we missed you. If you had come, you will be happy to know that there are many goodies happenning in this little paradice. Anyway, please do communicate, and let's work together.

We had a nice time promoting the localized GNU/Linux (site not upto date with the work) on the Free Software Day. The response was phenominal, and we can see more and more people and commercial organizations are coming forward to help us take the message across.

And we make it clear that FOSS is better not because of the cost, but because of the flexibility, freedom and control that comes with it, and the mindset change from dependence to independence.

We had a nice time promoting the localized GNU/Linux (site not upto date with the work) on the Free Software Day. The response was phenominal, and we can see more and more people and commercial organizations are coming forward to help us take the message across.

And we make it clear that FOSS is better not because of the cost, but because of the flexibility, freedom and control that comes with it, and the mindset change from dependence to independence.

We had a nice time promoting the localized GNU/Linux (site not upto date with the work) on the Free Software Day. The response was phenominal, and we can see more and more people and commercial organizations are coming forward to help us take the message across.

And we make it clear that FOSS is better not because of the cost, but because of the flexibility, freedom and control that comes with it, and the mindset change from dependence to independence.

This search gave me a whole bunch of good ones. Here's one of'em

Some visual effects for The Two Toweres were done with Maya running on KDE (Linux?). Screehshots are here.