Mac4Lin Listed in Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards

As we all know about "Mac4Lin" project which was started by our forum member Anirudh aka "infra_red_dude". The good news is "Mac4Lin" has been listed in Top 20 Winners for FOSS India Awards.

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Here is the complete list of the winners:

/Hindawi Indic Programming System
/Zmanda Recover Manager for MySQL
/Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech System
/Fedora (games and localization spins)
/KDE 3.5 Hindi
/MayaVi
/Jtrac
/DeepOfix
/Tuxtype
/WanEM
/Mac4Lin
/OpenLX
/Anjuta
/HarvestMan
/Get it I say
/KIWI-LTSP
/Ffmpeginstall
/Belenix
/TVTK: Traited VTK
/GNUSim8085

My heartly congratulations to Anirudh. Keep up the good job dude.

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exlent

congrats

congratulations Anirudh (uncle). You deserve it for all the hard and extremely boring and painful work you did in making each one of those icons, making them the right size, writing the doccumentaiton, organising the files, running a website, etc.

Wow, cool
I think infra never though his project would be so popular.
ins't it?

The total prize money for the awards was Rs 5 lakh and each winner will get Rs 25,000.

25k is a lot of money, what you plan to do with it?
we want a party brother
ALso please share some of your views on the project,future plans(no new version,since long

) & what we can expect next from your stable

stil there are Total 341,304 downloads, which is quite huge

^^25K ? He is in RV Collage right ? So we will meet him in the nearest Pizza Hut

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Congrats, lap it all up infra_red_dude, nicely deserved

Congratulations! *e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/party.gif

congrats infra!

Nice going Anirudh! Congratulations

Proud moment for us. Congrats ANi.

Congrats Ani

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Congrats buddy

coooooooool.congrats. :smile:

Congratulations infra.

Congrats Anirudh!!

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Congrats

Way to go dude!. Congrats.

Regards,
ray

Congrats buddy

Gr8 going!!!

Congrats Anirudh ....

awesome! way toooo good. keep it going Anirudh! keep rocking!

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wow that's great achievement Anirudh...Congrats man..

Congrats Anirudh! Master ji tusi great ho

Where's the party?

Yo yo yo....25lk, now get the W960i

gx_saurav said:
Yo yo yo....25lk, now get the W960i

Correction: its 25k

yo man!!!..Way to go..u made us all proud

Congrats!!*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/42a.gif

Congratulations Anirudh.....

*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/42a.gif

Congrats anirudh! Ur work wud be a great inspiration for others. *www.smileyhut.com/eat_drink/cheers1.gif

WOW

Excellent. Hearty Congrats Infra. You deserve it.

So when are you planing to give us party ?

Congrats Anirudh bro!

Hey infra congrats dude.. To be true, I never thot that Mac4Lin wd make it so big.. Congrats dude.. Keep rocking.. I hope it ll help in ur ms univ admissions and u get a full scholarship.

whoaa man great,you rightly deserve all the honor.Keep it going man.

Gee... Thanks guys!

Thanks for all your support and also to all those who voted on the site. BTW, I'm yet to get an official mail from them.

And isn't it something good that an MVP got the news and posted first. Don't you guys think this shows the true spirit and unity of Digit Forums?

Yes, new version hasn't been out for sometime as I've been really busy since the past one and a half months. But I am working on it and would soon release it. I plan to open up this project so will need the help of everyone who wish to contribute. More details later....

infra_red_dude said:
Gee... Thanks guys! Thanks for all your support and also to all those who voted on the site. BTW, I'm yet to get an official mail from them.

And isn't it something good that an MVP got the news and posted first. Don't you guys think this shows the true spirit and unity of Digit Forums?

Yes, new version hasn't been out for sometime as I've been really busy since the past one and a half months. But I am working on it and would soon release it. I plan to open up this project so will need the help of everyone who wish to contribute. More details later....

You posted a rather delayed reply

And yes, MVP is an MVP. Most Valued Professional. You too are an MVP as far as we are concerned.
Let april come and I am willing to do ANYTHING for your project. I am busy with examinations now.

infra_red_dude said:
Gee... Thanks guys! Thanks for all your support and also to all those who voted on the site. BTW, I'm yet to get an official mail from them.

And isn't it something good that an MVP got the news and posted first. Don't you guys think this shows the true spirit and unity of Digit Forums?

Yes, new version hasn't been out for sometime as I've been really busy since the past one and a half months. But I am working on it and would soon release it. I plan to open up this project so will need the help of everyone who wish to contribute. More details later....

So what you plan to do with 25k

?

^^^ Arey pehle mile to sahi!

infra_red_dude said:
^^^ Arey pehle mile to sahi!

arre bhi i think you should keep some money for mac4lin development & spend rest on your Girlfriends

gary4gar said:
So what you plan to do with 25k?

He plans to buy VISTA! lol

That's a great thing to hear!! Congrats man! It is also great to see an MVP to announce the news here. Good going bro

Now, THAT'S being professional, not holler like the other fanboys.

infra_red_dude said:
And isn't it something good that an MVP got the news and posted first. Don't you guys think this shows the true spirit and unity of Digit Forums?

Thats coz the person is really nice, just like you

Hes also not a fanboy and he helps others a lot (again, just like you).

din said:
Thats coz the person is really nice, just like you Hes also not a fanboy and he helps others a lot (again, just like you).

then i should say You are a nice & well civilized person, and not a Tribal Guy.

Seriously, You good at heart & say whatever you feel, no pomp & show

wow CONGO BUDDY!! wen r u givin party :mrgreen:

Congos Infra

woohoo ! anirudh you got to give par*content3.bigoo.ws/content/image/animation_miscellaneous/miscellaneous_94.gify.... otherwise i'm gonna hunt you down & *skins.hotbar.com/skins/mailskins/em/070105/070105_emMO2.gif

Truly a pride moment !

Now that's some news. Really great. You really deserve this.

Congratulations Anirudh.

Congrats man .

@Anirudh *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/41.gif

We all are very very proud of you*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/113.gif

So buddy, where's the part yaar *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/36.gif

Congratulations ANi

Keep up the good work

Congratulations Anirudh

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Keep up the good work

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Congratulations Anirudh! I am glad to know that someone from our Digit Forum family has got a great recognition (and not to mention the money :-D

) like this. Its Great!!!

Thanks guys

hey , thats a brilliant achievement mate

. . we are PROUD of you

. . may god help you in bringing you to great heights

Congratulations

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Congrats !

He deserves a mention in the upcoming Digit issue, Congrats bro.

Congrats Anirudh!
Great going!
Hope to see more projects from your in future

Congratz Buddy... u deserved this...

kumarmohit said:
He deserves a mention in the upcoming Digit issue

I strongly support it. Whom to contact regarding that ? Raaabo ?

Most prolly, infact we can ask them to do a piece on every winner.

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kumarmohit said:
Most prolly, infact we can ask them to do a piece on every winner.

LFY will be doing it anyway.

Congrats Infra. You rock.

Thanks

@Kalpik
Yep, they'd be doing it anyway.

^^kalpik?

yea I think anirudh and his project deserves a full 2-3page coverage in digit magazine with the latest build of mac4lin provided on DVD.

Uncle Ani! Congrats dude! Way to do. (Maybe you could buy me a few beers with the 25k

)

mehulved said:
LFY will be doing it anyway.

LFY, Yuck

Who reads LFY.

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anirudh! Great work!

Cheers!

congrats man, keep banging

M

kumarmohit said:
LFY, Yuck

Who reads LFY.

Well they're the one giving out the awards. And it's improved a lot these days.

Congrats infra_red_dude

A sent a PM to Raaabo

Hello Raaabo

I am not sure whom to contact regarding this, but I hope you are the right person.

Coming to the topic, as you already know infra_red_dude AKA Anirudh, the senior member in Thinkdigit forum won the prestegeous FOSS award this year. A thread is already running with the news and details, you can find it here..

I was just checking whether Digit will be able to put this news / details in the magazine as it is a happy news for Team Digit as well as all members of this forum.

Hope Digit Team will listen to our request and will do it.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Have a nice day.

Best Regards
Din.

Hope he will respond positively.

Digit should be proud of Infra. A 3-4 page article is a must.

Thanks Din

Pathik said:
Digit should be proud of Infra. A 3-4 page article is a must.

That would be an overkill!

What I suggest is that Digit covers the whole FOSS India Awards. This is a relatively new concept and not much heard of. They should publish an article on this and get the message to the whole community. This way from next year onwards we'll haf many more projects and this initiative of lfy/openitis to highlight the contributions of Indians would truly be successful. People should be encouraged to get their projects to the masses.

As someone said OSS/FOSS lacks publicity! We need to get this across to everyone out there so that they are rewarded suitably if they deserve it. IMHO Digit should over this event and then list all the 20 projects with One line info for each project and the download URL (info available at openitis website). Thats more than enough

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^ there should be a fast track or whole digit on this article + OSS so that people become more aware-yea thats true most still don't know linux\oss

and congrats,great work,awesome

infra_red_dude said:
That would be an overkill!

Nope.. I know you are being very modest. But you really deserve it.

What I suggest is that Digit covers the whole FOSS India Awards. This is a relatively new concept and not much heard of. They should publish an article on this and get the message to the whole community. This way from next year onwards we'll haf many more projects and this initiative of lfy/openitis to highlight the contributions of Indians would truly be successful. People should be encouraged to get their projects to the masses.

As someone said OSS/FOSS lacks publicity! We need to get this across to everyone out there so that they are rewarded suitably if they deserve it. IMHO Digit should over this event and then list all the 20 projects with One line info for each project and the download URL (info available at openitis website). Thats more than enough

Even this is good. But they should specially mention you and Mac4Lin.

Overkill ? I think not. Hard Work and Dedication combined with Patience and Defiance of all Odds is not a walk in the park. Guys like Anirudh are an inspiration to the entire community of wannabe and newbie developers and those who want to show the world that a single man can achieve something never achieved by huge companies. Anirudh surely deserves lots of praise.

I demand a poll in this thread asking if Anirudh should deserve an article in Digit.

No poll needed ! We all want to see him featured in Digit Magazine.

@Infra

You are really nice and that is the reason why you suggested it will be great if Digit features all FOSS Award winners. But we are not that nice, so evenif Digit decide do so, we want to see you as - special mention

Offtopic

@MetalheadGautham - your siggy was really funny

Liked it.

[size=+3]CONGRATS Ani... !!![/size]

Please take a cadbury from nearest shop and eat on behalf of me !!

im late ig uess but congratulations ani, chalo apple k naam pe tu bhi kama le

iMav said:
im late ig uess but congratulations ani, chalo apple k naam pe tu bhi kama le

iMav,

It's an Open Source and (I think) FREE project. I don't think Ani is earning through Mac4Lin.

Are you Ani ??

^^ 25k is the prize money

thats what i meant

i think he has the earned the prize money

iMav said:
^^ 25k is the prize money thats what i meant

i think he has the earned the prize money

hehe.. yeh..

He deserves that for his efforts !!

Hey congrats dude

You are from MSRIT right?Its nice to see Indian Engineering students are this good!

Actually is that project completely ready?Can we use it in Ubuntu?

din said:
No poll needed ! We all want to see him featured in Digit Magazine.

@Infra

You are really nice and that is the reason why you suggested it will be great if Digit features all FOSS Award winners. But we are not that nice, so evenif Digit decide do so, we want to see you as - special mention

Offtopic

@MetalheadGautham - your siggy was really funny Liked it.

1. Poll is needed just to prove the fact that we are at a unanimous decision
2. I hope you realised that the "Sambha" in the siggy was sambha server

shashank_re said:
Hey congrats dude
You are from MSRIT right?Its nice to see Indian Engineering students are this good!
Actually is that project completely ready?Can we use it in Ubuntu?

MSRIT ? Thats like a walk from my house. Tell me the time and I can personally congratulate you.

Never did this for any money. It was just a timepass project which spread like wild-fire!

It is opensource and free but licensed under LGPL coz some icons are proprietary. The GTK themes are separately licensed and fully GPL and anyone can use them/mod them/**** them

BTW, I still haf no official notification that Mac4Lin has won an award!!!

I mentioned that DIGIT should include all projects coz there are some grrrreat projects which won. Not all users ready LFY. But DIGIT reaches out to even those who don't use F/OSS OS. A lot of first time users can benefit from these projects

Yeah, I'm an MSRITian. But I passed out this year (last year actually, 2007).

Edit: @Shashank
Yes, its ready and you can use it on Ubuntu/ Slackware/ PCLinuxOS/ SUSE/ Mandriva/ Fedora/ RedHat/ FreeBSD/ OpenBSD/ OpenDarwin/ OpenSolaris etc. and any OS that uses GTK and GNOME

Why not make it for windows?I know there are WB,etc, but still your project seems to have better perfection

There's no GTK framework for Windows which can replace the default UI. You can haf GTK libs only to run gtk software (like pidgin/gimp etc.)

Actually my intention is not to mimic Mac but urge the developers to look into better UI. Mac happens to haf a beautiful UI and thats the reason why I chose it to draw their attention and show that nothing is impossi in OSS