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Google funds Sri Lanka’s open source development
Aug 04 (LBO) – Popular Internet search engine Google has given the Lanka Software Foundation 25,000 dollars to drive open source software projects locally.
Much of the funds will go towards new research and development projects, including work with open source database MySQL, the foundation said in a statement on Friday.
“To date the Lanka Software Foundation (LSF) has been severely restricted in the kinds of projects it could start because of funding restrictions,” Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, Co-Founder and Executive Director of LSF said.
“We hope to use this generous Google donation to seed a series of new R&D projects- starting with an effort around Apache Geronimo and also the popular open source database MySQL.”
Sri Lankan developers have been active in driving a number of
open source projects, especially at the Apache Software Foundation, LSF
said.
Source: Lanka Business Online
