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Sri Lanka FOSS Contribution
This page lists all the FOSS projects that Sri Lankans have been involved in either being the principal authors or where a substiancial amount of code / community contributions are been by Sri Lankas
Major Sri Lankan FOSS Project Contributions
Apache Software Foundation Projects:
- Apache Axis C++ -
C++ Web Services Engine. LSF Apache committers built this from scratch
and continues to lead this project
- Apache AXIS Java 2 - Phase to of
Apache's Java Web Services Engine. LSF Apache committers took on the
major role in contributing code for Phase AXIS Java II
- Sandesha - WS-Reliable
Messaging Implementation. LSF Apache committers built this from scratch
and continue to lead the project
- Mirae - JSR 172 J2ME FOSS
implementation. Built from scratch and lead by LSF committers
- EWS - Enterprise Web Services
- Kandula - WS Atomic Transactions implementation
General FOSS contributions
- Sahana - Shahana
Disaster Management Project initiated following recent Asian Tsunami.
Built from scratch on the LAMP stack by LSF, LKLUG and host of other
Sri Lankan Companies
- Prozilla - is a download accelerator for Linux which gives you a 200% to 300% improvement in your file downloading speeds. Prozilla was authored and lead by a Sri Lankan
Custom Linux Distributions Made in Sri Lanka:
- Taprobane - Sri Lankan built
Preconfigured Debian GNU/Linux based LiveCD installer
- Sinhala
Knoppix - Localized Knoppix Live CD in Sinhalese
- Grappix - Multimedia based distro
- Sinhala
Mepis - Localized Mepis in Sinhalese
Sri Lankan FOSS Committers and Authors:
- Dr Sanjiva Weerawarna is on the OSI Board and one of the co-authors of the web services open standards. He is a committer on numerous projects on Apache
- full list upcoming...
