On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not able to guess how many of you nurse a dream to create an open > source project. I guess many of us dream. But somehow due to work and other pressure it never gets done > There is a lot of satisfaction one can get by creating an open source > program. But the real > challenge here is getting a massive userbase and getting a lot of > people to use your creation. > > I have done some very interesting projects, developed cool products > and so on but I worked > for companies which could not utilize my creations appropriately. > > This I am sure is not my experience alone. Many individuals worldwide > will be facing this strange > situation. We have very few products from India which impacts the world. I guess this small projects like these could be a beginning. Really happy to see your creation on sf.net. > > Please start a sf.net project whenever you find the opportunity! I too started a project on sf.net purely out of passion for Open Source, Enterprise Class Email server - http://www.indimail.org. Yesterday I released version 1.5.8 I currently use bogofilter for the spam filter. I am going to try out spamcheetah soon _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
