[FSUG-Bangalore] Recognition for Madhu's work (Fwd: Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters)

[Madhusudan C.S]

Hi Praveen and all,

Great Work Madhu !!! We are proud of you for the hard work you have
> done !!! It was such an important task and you have stood up to the
> challenge and delivered.
>
> And you truly deserve this special mention. I'm sure this would be a
> great motivations to many students.


Thanks a lot. I don't know what to say, I have become a bit emotional now. I
myself
had not seen this mail of Michael's since I am not on the Debian Devel
Announce list.
First of all thanks a lot for posting this here and making me know about it.
Also
a million thanks (may be even thats not enough) to you for all the support
and also to
Aanjhan who made this possible for me. We still cannot forget the way you
both inspired
and motivated us for Google Summer of Code - 2007, when I myself was not
sure of
how I could do that. Though I did not get through Google Summer of Code
2007, I am
100% sure that Google Summer of Code 2008 is an outcome of your inspirations
and
motivations.

Also thanks for all the support you gave me during the selection procedure
like reviewing
my proposal, giving Pradeepto's blog link to "How to write the proposal for
GSoC",
forwarding my proposal to be reviewed by other people who have good hold the
subject
on which I was applying and all the related stuff. I owe a lot to you. I
really don't know
what to say for all these support.

Through this mail I sincerely thank all of them who helped me review my
proposal and
supported me every way possible during the course of Summer Of Code. Sorry
if I have
forgotten some of the names (I am really thankful to everybody who helped
me, even if the
name is not here, I am really sorry for that).

1. *Praveen*
2. *Aanjhan*
3. Special thanks to *Pradepto Bhattacharya* (He helped a lot, inspite of
too little time he
                                             had, he thoroughly reviewed all
the 3 proposals of mine and
                                             gave his
invaluable suggestions, which helped me a lot to
                                             tighten up my proposal in all
the possible ways and make it
                                             competitive in most of the
respects to other proposals sub-
                                             mitted by students worldwide)
4. *Pramod Sir* (For wonderful and best reviews which helped me in the same
way as above)
5. *Sreejith*
6. *Akshay Narayan* (My senior, again for the amazing ways in which he
reviewed my
                                proposal, I still don't foget the points he
made and probably I don't
                                forget them for life.)
7. *Shakthi Kannan*
8. *Joel Sherill* (RTEMS founder, who would have been my mentor if I had
chosen RTEMS
                       project, but he was kind enough to give away the slot
to Hurd seeing the
                       Hurd's man power then and the requirements.)
9. RTEMS community in general including *Daron Chabot*, *Ray X*, *Ralf* and
everybody
    who helped me through out the process.

And finally an infinite number of thanks to my mentor *Olaf Buddenhangen* (*
antrik*),
who made this possible, and I don't know how many I should give to a person
whom I regard
as a special person in my life, *Samuel Thibault* (*youpi*) without whom I
am sure I would not
have got this far and completed my project to this extent. Also sincere
thanks to Michael Banck
for his valuable suggestions and helping me through out SoC and integrating
my project with
Debian Hurd. Also thanks to Neal Walfield and a special thanks to Barry
deFreese(bddebian)
who gave an ssh account for me to work on his Hurd Server (
flubber.bddebian.com) and the
Hurd wiki he maintains there.

Also special thanks to Thomas Schwinge for giving me and all the GSoCers
commit access to
Hurd repositories and for other suggestions.

And last but not the least, my sincere thanks to my friends and classmates,
especially the so-called
fabulous five -* Santosh Vattam*,* Krishna Bharadhwaj*, *Puneeth
Bhat*,*Subramaniam
* and
*Nagaraj Hegde* for all the support they gave me during the course like
sharing notes, helping me
to get prepared for sem end exams quickly which happened during SoC, since I
had to concentrate
more on SoC during that time and also for giving psychological support
during the tough times I had
to face and also for inspiring and motivating me whenever I used to feel I
was totally lost.


>
> Keep up the good work.


Thanks again, sure will do it.

>
> Happy Hacking
> Praveen
>
> PS: We should plan to give a special gift to Madhu on SFD to celebrate
> this.
>

I seriously think its you and Aanjhan who deserve these gifts, I will have
to give you
something but only on one condition - you both must come back to India :P
;-)

PS: All these happened because we met you and Aanjahn at BMSCE on March 11th
2007,
which happens to be the most unforgettable day in my life which was the day
following
GNU's grazing in Cubbon park to which we had all come and you were pretty
surprised
to see BMSLUG out numbering you all ;-)
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/GNUs_Grazing/10March2007

-- 
Thanks and regards,
 Madhusudan.C.S

Blogs at: www.madhusudancs.info
Official Email ID: madhusudan at madhusudancs.info
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