This is to illustrate the steps to start a FOSS project.

1. Presentation
on Open Source
Project
Contribution
Arun Prakash
April 16, 2011

2. ILUGC

2337 Members

8921 Emails

2708 Threads

69 Zero Reply Questions
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174 One Day One App

111 Tips
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71 Job Posts
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12 Meetings
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39 Foss Events
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Foss Labs in 30 Colleges

3. Mailing List Statistics

4. ILUGC Administrators
Founder : Prabhu Ramachandran
Co-ordinators : Bharathi Subramanian
Shrinivasan

5. Event Management Web tshrinivasan AT gmail dot com started
system
Predictive text entry Desktop? santhosh dot thottingal at RedHat team is working
with ibus gmail dot com on this.
e-Gov 2.0 Stack for Web gaurav dot paliwal1989 at Started
Public/Private Clouds gmail dot com
Linux Desktop Testing Desktop nagappan at gmail dot com Started
Project
Mago Desktop nagappan at gmail dot com Started
Pseudo Video Streaming Online Video baskar at linuxpert dot in Not yet started
in Dspace Training
CrowdSrouced
India Bus Routes data collection / srik dot lak at gmail dot com Started
Mapping Project Routing Web
application

6. IVR /
IVR Based Exam Results Speech
Management system / malan dot in at gmail dot com Started
Telecomm
unication
LibreOffice Enhancements Desktop tshrinivasan AT gmail dot com Not yet started
MS Exchange Calendar Sync for Desktop tshrinivasan AT gmail dot com Not yet started
Thunderbird
Create Information awareness
and sustainable living
community model development Web kathiresanp AT gmail dot com Not yet started
using Crowdsourcing and
Infographics
Open source tool for easily
managing packages on offline Desktop webrsk.ideas@gmail.com Started
Debian based computers

7. Python based project Web velappanv AT gmail dot com In Discussion
management system
Installing
SchoolOS GNU/Linu feedback AT schoolos.org Started
x at every
school
Eduvid Web/HT narendra AT narendrasisodiya.com Started
ML
1WPS - One wikipedia per school Distro narendra AT narendrasisodiya.com Started
creating
SVG-Edit for Desktop .deb narendra AT narendrasisodiya.com Not yet Started
package
Desktop
Port ekalappai to Linux (Involves mugunth AT gmail.com Not yet Started
c, c++, Qt)

8. Desktop
Desktop Client to upload the (Python, tshrinivasan AT gmail.com Not yet
documents to scribd.com GTK or Started
QT)
Desktop,
OverView Presentation tool - Python,
FOSS Alternate to Prezi.com OpenGL, alanbell AT ubuntu DOT com Not yet started
Quickly,
GTK
Projects for Vidyasagar - Desktop( bama AT annauniv DOT edu, Started
assistive technology projects Python) chorse AT gmail DOT com
Concatenation of ogg audio
files for phrasal pronunciation sundarbecse at yahoo Proposed
Why is it needed?

9. More Projects at ,
http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Projects/TaskList

10. Most Important FOSS Topics
* Installing and basic Commands
* Version Control Systems
* Editing Mediawiki
* JQuery
* Ruby On Rails
* Device Drivers Development
* HTML5
* BTRFS
* Anonymous web ( TOR, Privoxy, I2P, FreeNet etc. )
* OpenStack development
* BIND9 configuration
* F(L)OSS for teachers
* F(L)OSS in e-governance
* F(L)OSS in data center automation (Puppet, Chef, CfEngine, Func etc.)
* Spinning / Remastering of Linux distro's
* Open Source Health Stack (OpenEMR, OpenMRS, Tolven etc.)
* Jython
* Perl
* Simple GUI programming using GTK.
* OpenOffice Introduction
* Network Security

11. Mentor List
tshrinivasan AT gmail
T Shrinivasan Linux, Python, PHP
DOT com
sudharsh AT gmail DOT Linux, Python, Version control
S Sudharshan
com basics
rajmahendra AT gmail
Rajmahendra Java technology
DOT com
dhilip DOT jec AT gmail
Dhilip S Linux, Python
DOT com
psprabhugsundar AT gmail
Prabhu Linux, Version Control (SVN)
DOT com
sivaji2009 AT gmail DOT
Sivaji Drupal
com
selva DOT infobees AT
Selvamani Python, Glade, Pygtk
gmail DOT com

12. baskar AT linuxpert
Baskar Linux, DSpace, LTSP
DOT in
bala DOT mailbocs
Balaji Linux,Python
AT gmail DOT com
vcbuddy A T gmail
Sivakumar Linux, Version Control
DOT com
jaganadhg A T Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning,
Jaganadh G
gmail DOT com Python, Semantic Web
dhasthagheer AT LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), JQuery, Java
Dhasthagheer A
gmail DOT com Script
sagarun AT gmail
Arun SAG Fedora,Python,Django, Git
DOT com
naga2raja AT gmail
Nagaraja T Linux, Python, GCC
DOT com
govivasanth AT
Vasanth Govind PHP, MySQL, Javascript
gmail DOT com

13. Linux, Ruby, Rails, MySQL,
pingmagesh AT gmail DOT
Magesh Javascript, JQuery,
com
Wordpress(CMS)
Linux, PHP, MySQL, Python,
Senthil RSK Email Glade, PyGTK , Android , Web
Security
openSUSE / Ubuntu Linux,
Nagappan Alagappan nagappan AT gmail DOT com Python, GNOME, Mago, LDTP,
Automated testing
rajaram.shyamala AT gmail
Shyamala Drupal
DOT com
Natural Language Processing,
Human Computer Interaction,
Voice Driven Computing,
prabhumailz AT gmail DOT Speech Recognition, Speech
Prabhu
com Synthesis, Machine
Translation, Speech
Translation, IP-Telephony,
perl, Python, Linux

14. ijeyanthan AT gmail DOT Google Technologies - Google
Jeyanthan
com Chrome Plugins
Gnu/Linux,Ubuntu,Python,Ruby,J
arulalant AT gmail DOT
Arulalan.T S,JQuery,CDAT(Climate Data
com
Analysis Tool),Postgres
Linux,C,C++,Qt4,OpenCV,
Hadoop/MapReduce,CFD
L.mohanphy AT gmail DOT
Mohan L Modeling and Simulation and
com
Statistical Modeling/Simulation
using GNU R
suji87 DOT msc AT gmail
Suji.A Linux,Ubuntu,PHP, MySQL
DOT com
Linux, PHP, MySQL, HACKING
malan DOT in AT gmail TOOLS, JOOMLA, WORDPRESS,
Lakshmichandrakanth
DOT com SERVER / NETWORK
SIMULATION, SHELL SCRIPTS

15. LAMP, VIRTUALIZATION,
chidambasakthi AT gmail CLOUD COMPUTING,SERVER /
Chidambaresan Sakthi
DOT com NETWORK, REAL TIME
PROJECTS
velappanv AT gmail DOT Linux, Python, Project
V Velappan
com Management, Agile
manimani1014 AT gmail
R Manikandan PHP, MySQL, JS, Jquery
DOT com
Perl, Pywikipediabot, formal
sundarbecse AT yahoo DOT
Sundar grammars, web information
com
extraction