On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 15:53 +0530, 0 wrote: > > As for your analogy, if you want to know the number of people who > travel > > by train to go bird watching, it is foolish to watch the trains and > try > > to identify the 0.0001 percentage of the travelers who are going to > > watch birds - it is far easier to go to the bird sanctuary and find > out > > the number of people there who commute by train. > > Well said. Although, I don't think there is one place where we can > find > open source contributors. May be, what we need first is to compile a > list of reliable sources where one can find such contributors.
this is the best place (and chennaipy and chennai ruby group). I will start the ball rolling: Jaganad H has made good contributions to NLP Kumar Appaiah - debian Yuvi Panda - OSM and python stuff Shakthi Kannan - a one man army of myriad contributions Girish - spam cheetah Raman - he is in cpan Srinivasan's brother (I forget his name) there are many more - will add them as and when I remember. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc