“Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under Free/Open source licenses. It is located in Trivandrum, India and hosted at Asianet data center. Sarovar.org is customised, installed and maintained by Linuxense as part of their community services and sponsored by River Valley Technologies.
Sarovar is hosted on a Compaq box running Debian woody and GForge.
Please read the site documentation http://doc.sarovar.org for effective use of Sarovar.org. Contact raj at linuxense dot com if you have further questions or comments”
Sarovar.org
I always had a sneaky suspicion that there were a lot of really smart guys in Trivandrum, my home town. This more or less confirms it.
I have joined and have plans of putting my nucleus plugins over there. I have started out on a couple of new projects which hopefully will have a larger user base.
Open Source is a natural fit for India. Behind inherently less materialistic than the West and with a long scholarly tradition of distributing knowledge behind us, I am quite sure that Indians will make their mark in OSS.
India really is shining ;-)