<div dir="ltr">Hi Praveen and all,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Great Work Madhu !!! We are proud of you for the hard work you have<br>
done !!! It was such an important task and you have stood up to the<br>
challenge and delivered.<br>
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And you truly deserve this special mention. I'm sure this would be a<br>
great motivations to many students.</blockquote><div><br>Thanks a lot. I don't know what to say, I have become a bit emotional now. I myself<br>had not seen this mail of Michael's since I am not on the Debian Devel Announce list.<br>
First of all thanks a lot for posting this here and making me know about it. Also<br>a million thanks (may be even thats not enough) to you for all the support and also to<br>Aanjhan who made this possible for me. We still cannot forget the way you both inspired<br>
and motivated us for Google Summer of Code - 2007, when I myself was not sure of <br>how I could do that. Though I did not get through Google Summer of Code 2007, I am<br>100% sure that Google Summer of Code 2008 is an outcome of your inspirations and <br>
motivations. <br><br>Also thanks for all the support you gave me during the selection procedure like reviewing<br>my proposal, giving Pradeepto's blog link to "How to write the proposal for GSoC", <br>forwarding my proposal to be reviewed by other people who have good hold the subject<br>
on which I was applying and all the related stuff. I owe a lot to you. I really don't know<br>what to say for all these support. <br> <br>Through this mail I sincerely thank all of them who helped me review my proposal and<br>
supported me every way possible during the course of Summer Of Code. Sorry if I have<br>forgotten some of the names (I am really thankful to everybody who helped me, even if the<br>name is not here, I am really sorry for that).<br>
<br>1. <b>Praveen</b><br>2. <b>Aanjhan</b><br>3. Special thanks to <b>Pradepto Bhattacharya</b> (He helped a lot, inspite of too little time he<br> had, he thoroughly reviewed all the 3 proposals of mine and <br>
gave his invaluable suggestions, which helped me a lot to <br> tighten up my proposal in all the possible ways and make it <br> competitive in most of the respects to other proposals sub-<br>
mitted by students worldwide)<br>4. <b>Pramod Sir</b> (For wonderful and best reviews which helped me in the same way as above)<br>5. <b>Sreejith</b><br>6. <b>Akshay Narayan</b> (My senior, again for the amazing ways in which he reviewed my <br>
proposal, I still don't foget the points he made and probably I don't<br> forget them for life.)<br>7. <b>Shakthi Kannan</b><br>8. <b>Joel Sherill</b> (RTEMS founder, who would have been my mentor if I had chosen RTEMS<br>
project, but he was kind enough to give away the slot to Hurd seeing the <br> Hurd's man power then and the requirements.)<br>9. RTEMS community in general including <b>Daron Chabot</b>, <b>Ray X</b>, <b>Ralf</b> and everybody <br>
who helped me through out the process.<br><br>And finally an infinite number of thanks to my mentor <b>Olaf Buddenhangen</b> (<b>antrik</b>), <br>who made this possible, and I don't know how many I should give to a person whom I regard<br>
as a special person in my life, <b>Samuel Thibault</b> (<b>youpi</b>) without whom I am sure I would not<br>have got this far and completed my project to this extent. Also sincere thanks to Michael Banck<br>for his valuable suggestions and helping me through out SoC and integrating my project with <br>
Debian Hurd. Also thanks to Neal Walfield and a special thanks to Barry deFreese(bddebian) <br>who gave an ssh account for me to work on his Hurd Server (<a href="http://flubber.bddebian.com">flubber.bddebian.com</a>) and the <br>
Hurd wiki he maintains there. <br><br>Also special thanks to Thomas Schwinge for giving me and all the GSoCers commit access to<br>Hurd repositories and for other suggestions.<br><br>And last but not the least, my sincere thanks to my friends and classmates, especially the so-called<br>
fabulous five -<b> Santosh Vattam</b>,<b> Krishna Bharadhwaj</b>, <b>Puneeth Bhat</b>,<b> Subramaniam</b> and <br><b>Nagaraj Hegde</b> for all the support they gave me during the course like sharing notes, helping me<br>to get prepared for sem end exams quickly which happened during SoC, since I had to concentrate<br>
more on SoC during that time and also for giving psychological support during the tough times I had<br>to face and also for inspiring and motivating me whenever I used to feel I was totally lost. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Keep up the good work.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Thanks again, sure will do it. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Happy Hacking<br>
Praveen<br>
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PS: We should plan to give a special gift to Madhu on SFD to celebrate this.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I seriously think its you and Aanjhan who deserve these gifts, I will have to give you<br>something but only on one condition - you both must come back to India :P ;-)<br><br>PS: All these happened because we met you and Aanjahn at BMSCE on March 11th 2007,<br>
which happens to be the most unforgettable day in my life which was the day following <br>GNU's grazing in Cubbon park to which we had all come and you were pretty surprised<br>to see BMSLUG out numbering you all ;-) <br>
<a href="http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/GNUs_Grazing/10March2007">http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/GNUs_Grazing/10March2007</a><br><br></div></div>-- <br>Thanks and regards,<br> Madhusudan.C.S<br><br>Blogs at: <a href="http://www.madhusudancs.info" target="_blank">www.madhusudancs.info</a><br>
Official Email ID: <a href="mailto:madhusudan@madhusudancs.info" target="_blank">madhusudan@madhusudancs.info</a><br>
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