We are trying to capture the list of Indian FOSS contributors here. This means, i suppose, Indians in India, as contributions of Indians in foreign is huge, and not a subject of the debate here. Also contribution to application software finds a place here. We could also think of adding background information on the developers. Like background: IT/NonIT, Profession: Student/Employee/Entrepreneur, if employee - MNC or local. Big or small. This may help pinpoint the type or person who contributes to FOSS. Also, an important one, is the person contributing code in the course of employment?

Featured Contributor
Every month we will focus on a contributor and will capture information about the projects they work on; comments from friends, colleagues and other members of the project. Featured Contributor for April 2008 is Kumar Appaiah. He contributes to Debian project and is a Debian Developer. He is located in Chennai, India. More information about him is available here. You can add to it as well.

There is another article trying to capture the challenges Indian FOSS contributors have to face.

Note: Please add your name in sorted manner.

1. Abhas Abhinav -- deepofix
2. Anand Avati -- freetalk, freehoo, gluster
3. Anand Pillai -- HarvestMan
4. Anant Narayanan -- Gentoo, PHP-GTK, GNU Parted, Plan 9 from Bell Labs
5. Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli -- Linux Kernel
6. Anil Gulecha -- Belenix, OpenSolaris Live Media
7. Ankita Garg -- Linux Kernel
8. Ankit Patel -- IndianOSS, GNOME i18n, Fedora
9. Ani Peter -- GNOME l10n, Fedora
10. Anivar Aravind - Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, Moving Republic
11. Anurag Seetha -- Gnome i18n, IndLinux
12. Asmita K -- Gargi font
13. A Vinoth Rajesh -- Project Vismaya
14. Baiju M -- ZOPE, Malayalam l10n, FSF-I
15. Bhasker V Kode -- The Returnable Project
16. Biju Chacko -- XFCE
17. Balbir Singh -- Linux Kernel
18. Chaitanya K -- Festival-te, Swecha
19. Dinakar Guniguntala -- Linux Kernel
20. Dipankar Sarma -- Linux Kernel
21. Ganesan Rajagopal - Official Debian Developer (maintainer of ipsec-tools package)
22. Gautham Shenoy R -- Linux Kernel
23. Gopal V -- DotGNU, PHP-APC
24. Gora Mohanty -- Indlinux
25. G Karunakar -- Indlinux, Debian
26. GT Rao -- Fossyatra.in,Fossyatra.wordpress.com
27. Joseph Koshy -- FreeBSD, Indic-computing
28. Kalyan Varma -- Perl Modules, OpenSSL
29. Kartik Mistry -- Debian
30. Ketan PAdegaonkar -- SWTBot, JCCTray
31. Kumar Appaiah -- Debian
32. Kushal Das -- Fedora, OpenPCD, Chotha, Ria
33. Maneesh Soni -- Linux Kernel
34. Moinak Ghosh -- Belenix
35. Monica Shah -- Devanagari fonts
36. Naba Kumar -- Anjuta
37. Nagappan A -- ldtp, GNOME
38. Nagarjuna G -- gnowledge.org, FSF-I, GNOWSYS
39. Nagarjuna Venna -- Padma
40. Nitin Reddy Katkam -- WordPress, phpBB
41. Philip Tellis -- libyahoo2, ayttm, httptype, HTML.Template.java, getmail.com, rssyn
42. Prabakaran Thirumalai -- Founder , CSQL Main Memory Database and Cache
43. Pradeepto Bhattacharya -- kde
44. Prasanna Panchamukhi -- Linux Kernel
45. Prasad Kadambi -- Debian
46. Prashanth Mohan -- ldtp
47. Praveen A -- Debian Installer Malayalam Localization, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
48. Priti Patil -- Marathi l10n, Janabhaaratii
49. Rahul Bhalerao -- Fedora, Samyak and Indic Computing
50. Rahul Sundaram -- Fedora Project Board member
51. Raj Mathur -- perl stuff
52. Rajeev Sharma -- OSCAR, Linux with IBM i5OS, Zope
53. Ramanraj -- CALPP
54. Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan - Official Debian Developer, GNU Radio
55. Ramprasad B -- GNU Emacs, gnu.org, FSF, Inc.
56. Ramakrishna Reddy -- entrans, IndLinux
57. Ravishankar Shrivastava -- IndLinux, OpenOffice l10n
58. RKVS Raman -- BharateeyaOO.o Group, OpenOffice l10n
59. Runa Bhattacharjee -- GNOME i18n, Fedora, IndLinux, Ankur Bangla Project
60. Santhosh Thottingal-- Dhvani TTS, GNOME Malayalam, Debian Malayalam, Aspell-ml, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
61. Satyaakam Goswami -- Adempiere,Sugar,Fossevents.in,Fossacademy.org.
62. Sayamindu Dasgupta -- GNOME, IndLinux, Ankur Bangla Project, Free Bangla Fonts Project, OpenOffice.org
63. Shreyank Gupta -- ldtp
64. Indranil Das Gupta -- Koha, DSpace
65. Sashank Dara -- Lingua-Franca
66. Shivkumar G -- Belenix
67. Shreyas Srinivasan -- GNOME, Evolution, OpenOffice.org
68. Shyam Mani -- Gentoo
69. Sirtaj Singh Kang -- KDE
70. Soumyadip Modak -- Debian, IndLinux, Ankur Bangla Project
71. Srichand Pendyala -- GNOME, Java-GNOME
72. Srinivasa Raghavan Kandala -- IndicIME
73. Srivatsa V -- Linux Kernel
74. Srivatsan ravi -- Freenet
75. Students of TCE college Madurai -- admin software
76. Subramanya Sastry -- Newsrack, Servelots
77. Sunil Mohan Adapa -- Swecha, IndLinux
78. Suparna Bhattacharya -- Linux Kernel
79. Surekha Sastry -- IndicIME
80. Suzuki KP -- Linux Kernel
81. Swapnil Hajare -- Marathi l10n, Indictrans
82. Tarique Sani -- PHP, Coppermine
83. Varun Hiremath -- Debian
84. Vasudev Ram -- xtopdf
85. Vijay Kumar -- OpenOffice
86. Vikram Vincent -- GNU/Hurd, Debian-Installer, Swatantra.org, FSF
87. Vivek Rai - IndLinux, Hindi l10n
88. Vignesh - Swecha, entrans