I had no idea about this until now as I have received no communication from the organisers regarding the awards and I have no idea how I got nominated.

And I think this is completely Bullshit.

I don’t see any reason how I can get nominated even though I haven’t been active in the Free Software community since the last year or so.

I think there are many other people who deserve this much more than I do. Hell I don’t think I would even feature in the list of top 100 Indian Free Software developers.

To name a few, I would rather nominate the following (in no particular order):

• Gopal Vijayraghavan (PHP APC, DotGNU)
• Sayamindu Dasgupta (GNOME, OLPC)
• Kartik Mistry (Debian, OOo)
• Kumar Appaiah (Debian)
• Ananth Narayanan (Gentoo, PHP, Plan9)
• … and many others

So, the organisers, please don’t humiliate me like this and kindly take down my name from your God damned website.

I am just a Free Software enthusiast … I don’t need no award.

And in any case, I think this whole event is bullshit, just look at the other nominations and you will know. But that’s another story …