Sayahna Foundation is a nonprofit advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and technologies by leading a transformation in research communication, propagate free/open source software based advanced document engineering, promote sustainable living, undertake documentary digitization initiatives, etc.  The Foundation is run by the following volunteers:

1. Ashraf Mohammed Ashraf Mohamed was born in 1962 in Chavakkad, Thrissur of Kerala state. He completed his graduate studies in Economics at Kerala Varma College, Thrissur. He served the Treasury Department of Government of Kerala as an accountant for a decade, then he migrated to Qatar and worked as a procurement officer in a fertilizer company which he continued till 2016. He was actively involved in the pre-press production work of Encyclopedia of Dravidian Linguistics as a proof reader. He is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. The cartoons in the famed Rachana brochure were drawn by Ashraf. He is responsible for the illustrations for the works published by Sayahna.

1. Anupa Ann Joseph is an engineer by training, she had a brief stint with the International Center for Free and Open Source Software, Trivandrum. As a free software activist, she liaised with the student folks in the technology institutions to bring out the women folk to the core areas of computing in free software. She is one of the two leading typesetters at Sayahna through whom the pdfs take shape every day. She takes care of the daily deliveries in social media groups along with Jamuna. When needed, she assumes the role of the key resource person to train interns in LaTeX and Ithal.
2. Aravind Rajendran is a network engineer by training and had a decade long experience in the communication industry in India and uk. Lately, he developed an interest in law, particularly intellectual property law and is currently in the final semester of his graduate course in law. Along with it, he is actively associated with Sayahna's open access publishing efforts. As a technologist, he takes care of the various servers of Sayahna in India in tandem with Hàn Thê Thành in Germany. Owing to his in-depth knowledge of intellectual property rights, he scrutinizes the consent assignment documents and evaluates various copyright assignments of works presented for publication at Sayahna.

Ashok Kumar PK is a typesetter by profession and training, has four decades of extensive experience in typesetting right from the age of metal typefaces through digitized typesetting including TeX and LaTeX. Free content activist and principal tester for fonts developed by Rachana Institute of Typography, played a major role in the migration of production of Janayugom daily using free software. He is also one of the founders and early players of the palliative movement in India. Ashok oversees the daily production, schedules deliveries and liaises with authors. Hàn Thê Thành has a strong background in typesetting and typography. He wrote pdfTeX, a popular typesetting program among academic authors, and also used to do large xml-based typesetting projects, e.g., Bible. He released pdfTeX as free software in the nineties which is the default compiler in all standard TeX distributions. The popularity of pdfTeX is such that someone at somewhere in the world might be using it at any point in time of the day. For more details see this Wikipedia link.
Thành holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. In fact, pdfTeX is part of his doctoral work. He is part of Trivic s.r.o., a software development company with headquarters in Czech Republic. Thành is the key technology resource for all the TeX requirements of Sayahna apart from the maintenance of all our servers in Germany.

1. GS Krishna: JWRA 36, Jagathy, Trivandrum 695014. Film maker by training, free content activist. (inactive)
2. Sundar Ramanatha Iyer, Baker Land, Kaladi, Trivandrum. Researcher, short story writer, critic and free content activist. (passed away)
3. PN Vijayan, Kochi. Free content activist. (inactive)
4. PN Venugopal, xxviii/2859, ‘Vasudha’, Vikas Nagar, Kochi 682020. Translator, freelance journalist, critic and free content activist. (inactive)
5. AM Shanmugam: VTRA 48, Killippalam, Trivandrum 695009. Trained in TeX, XML and related technologies. Publishing specialist and project manager. (inactive)
6. T Rishikesan: Santhini, TC 2/2058, Jeevan Nagar, Pattom, Trivandrum 695004. Trained in TeX, XSLT, XML and related technologies. Publishing specialist and project manager.
7. Mahesh Chelen: KRA 1, T.C. 53/2493, Nemom, Trivandrum 695020. Engineer by training, systems engineer. (inactive)
8. V Apu: Manalil Veedu, Valiathura, Vallakkadavo PO, Trivandrum 695008. Engineer by training. TeX programmer. (inactive)
9. K Brahmanayagam: Chartered Accountant by training and profession. (inactive)
10. CV Rajagopal: SRA 34C, Arapura Road, Elipode, Trivandrum 695013. Java Programmer, free software activist.
11. CV Radhakrishnan: JWRA 34, Jagathy, Trivandrum 695014. TeX programmer and free software activist.