[Indic-computing-users] Sarovar.org

[Rajkumar S <ra...@li...>]

Hi all,


We are happy to announce the release of Sarovar.org to the world!


Sarovar.org is a portal for hosting FLOSS project, similar to sourceforge
or Savannah. As far as we are aware it is India's first and only site to
offer such facilities. Sarovar.org has all the features that you will
expect from a such a site, including web space, mail lists, cvs etc.

The root of the idea to have such a site can be traced back to the Indic
computing meeting at Bangalore, where there was a desire to have some
hosting space for Indic computing projects. We had some discussions about
it back in Trivandrum and we thought we can make such a space for for
developers in India for hosting their work. The result is sarovar.org.

Sarovar.org is a Compaq machine running Debian Woody and a customized
gforge. It is hosted in Trivandrum and connected to BSNL, VSNL and
SingTel. All the traffic from it should come with out leaving India. We
are also planning to mirror some important sites right here, including
Linux kernel and mail lists. We are also open to other ideas to use this
resource. Please let me know if you have any.

Please feel free to pass this news to other lists or people who might also
be interested in such a facility.
with warm regards,

raj