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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:

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.
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 $L a T e X$ and Ithal.
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 $T e X$ and $L a T e X$ . 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 pdf $T e X$ , a popular typesetting program among academic authors, and also used to do large xml-based typesetting projects, e.g., Bible. He released pdf $T e X$ as free software in the nineties which is the default compiler in all standard $T e X$ distributions. The popularity of pdf $T e X$ 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, pdf $T e X$ 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 $T e X$ requirements of Sayahna apart from the maintenance of all our servers in Germany.
Hussain KH is a Library and information scientist by training (he holds a doctoral degree in the discipline) and profession, font designer and developer of several fonts including, Rachana, Meera, Meera Inimai, TN Joy, RSugathan, Janayugom, Keraleeyam, Uroob, etc., free software activist, released all fonts under Open Font License. Played an important role in the migration of Janayugom daily to free software based production technologies. He is also one of the founders of Rachana Institute of Typography. Apart from the development of several families of fonts, a few other items of contribution deserve mentioning. He is the founding leader of Rachana Aksharavedi, one of the earliest technology movements in India. The glyph naming method followed in truetype and opentype fonts in Malayalam is his invention. He developed the Kerala Index, the comprehensive catalogue of books in the University Library, Trivandrum. He is one of the key resource persons in Sayahna for font development and maintenance, standardization of usage of Malayalam and unified style book for the language.
Jan Vanĕk has a masters degree in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (1991–1996). He started his software development career in 1998, first in Prague mostly in C++. In 2002, he moved to Mannheim, Germany to work for a company, dcw GmbH, as a Java developer where he continued till the company was sold to sap ag in 2007. Afterwards, Jan Vanĕk remotely worked for the London based Origin Technologies Ltd., developing embedded software in C++ (e.g., Pogo Alert+) for three years. Since 2010, he worked for Mannheim based Libra GmbH as a Java developer till 2019 April, afterwards, he set up his own technology company, Trivic s.r.o., along with Hàn Thê Thành. Regardless of the programming language and environment, he tries to produce quality code particularly in large projects where the complexity (mess and wastage) can be enormous. He believes that by providing the right sub-structure, like component framework, and shifting to proper practice, we can tame the complexity factor. He prefers statically and strongly typed languages like Scala, Kotlin and Java. He is the key architect and developer of authoring and text processing software that supports complex input, Unicode, and many languages including Malayalam to empower the authoring community. The software will become part of Ithal shortly.
Prof. Lissy Mathew is the sole academic person in the core team of Sayahna. She holds masters and doctoral degrees in Malayalam language and literature, currently serves as the head of the Department of Malayalam in Sri Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kaladi, Kerala. She is the author of many books and research articles, guided several researchers leading to the award of doctoral degrees, organized seminars, participated in many international and national conferences, undertaken funded research projects. Her assumption as the head of the Malayalam department has resulted in newfound enthusiasm in digitization efforts, migration of text processing from stone age software to Unicode based systems, collaboration with publishing industry to impart newest technologies to the students of publishing oriented specialized courses, etc. Prof. Lissy Mathew is the principal gateway of Sayahna to the domain of academic world and she takes up the role of principal coordinator of the standardization of Malayalam language usage and creation of unified style book for the language.
Radhakrishnan CV is a free software activist and $T e X$ programmer, one of the founders of the Free Software Foundation of India and Indian {{TeX} Users Group]. He had organized two annual meetings of the $T e X$ Users Group in Trivandrum in 2002 and 2011. Wrote several packages (libraries) in $L a T e X$ and released under free license (lppl) at Comprehensive $T e X$ Archive Network (ctan). He is one of the founders of Sayahna Foundation.

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

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 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:
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 # <strong>Ashraf Mohammed</strong> 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.
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 # <strong>Anupa Ann Joseph</strong> 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 {{sc|pdf}}s 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 [http://ithal.io Ithal].
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 # <strong>Aravind Rajendran</strong> is a network engineer by training and had a decade long experience in the communication industry in India and  {{sc|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.
-<strong>Ashok Kumar PK</strong> 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 [http://rachna.org.in  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.
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-<strong>Hàn Thê Thành</strong> has a strong background in typesetting and typography. He wrote {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}}, a popular typesetting program among academic authors, and also used to do large {{sc|xml}}-based typesetting projects, e.g., Bible. He released  {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}} as free software in the nineties which is the default compiler in all standard {{TeX}} distributions. The popularity of {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}} 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pdftex Wikipedia link].
+# <strong>Ashok Kumar PK</strong> 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 [http://rachna.org.in  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.
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-Thành holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. In fact, {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}} is part of his doctoral work.  He is part of [https://trivic.io 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.
+# <strong>Hàn Thê Thành</strong> has a strong background in typesetting and typography. He wrote {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}}, a popular typesetting program among academic authors, and also used to do large {{sc|xml}}-based typesetting projects, e.g., Bible. He released  {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}} as free software in the nineties which is the default compiler in all standard {{TeX}} distributions. The popularity of {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}} 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pdftex Wikipedia link]. Thành holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. In fact, {{sc|pdf}}{{TeX}} is part of his doctoral work.  He is part of [https://trivic.io 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.
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+#<strong>Hussain KH</strong> is a Library and information scientist by training (he holds a doctoral degree in the discipline) and profession, font designer and developer of several fonts including, Rachana, Meera, Meera Inimai, TN Joy, RSugathan, Janayugom, Keraleeyam, Uroob, etc., free software activist, released all fonts under Open Font License. Played an important role in the migration of Janayugom daily to free software based production technologies. He is also one of the founders of [http://rachana.org.in Rachana Institute of Typography]. Apart from the development of several families of fonts, a few other items of contribution deserve mentioning.  He is the founding leader of Rachana Aksharavedi, one of the earliest technology movements in India.  The glyph naming method followed in truetype and opentype fonts in Malayalam is his invention.  He developed the Kerala Index, the comprehensive catalogue of books in the University Library, Trivandrum.  He is one of the key resource persons in Sayahna for font development and maintenance, standardization of usage of Malayalam and unified style book for the language.
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+#<strong>Jan Vanĕk</strong> has a masters degree in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (1991–1996). He started his software development career in 1998, first in Prague mostly in C++. In 2002, he moved to Mannheim, Germany to work for a company, {{sc|dcw}} GmbH, as a Java developer where he continued till the company was sold to {{sc|sap ag}} in 2007. Afterwards, Jan Vanĕk remotely worked for the London based Origin Technologies Ltd., developing embedded software in C++ (e.g., Pogo Alert+) for three years. Since 2010, he worked for Mannheim based Libra GmbH as a Java developer till 2019 April, afterwards, he set up his own technology company, [https://trivic.io Trivic s.r.o.], along with Hàn Thê Thành. Regardless of the programming language and environment, he tries to produce quality code particularly in large projects where the complexity (mess and wastage) can be enormous. He believes that by providing the right sub-structure, like component framework, and shifting to proper practice, we can tame the complexity factor. He prefers statically and strongly typed languages like Scala, Kotlin and Java. He is the key architect and developer of authoring and text processing software that supports complex input, Unicode,  and many languages including Malayalam to empower the authoring community. The software will become part of [http://ithal.io Ithal] shortly.
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+#<strong>Prof. Lissy Mathew</strong> is the sole academic person in the core team of Sayahna. She holds masters and doctoral degrees in Malayalam language and literature, currently serves as the  head of the Department of Malayalam in Sri Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kaladi, Kerala. She is the author of many books and research articles, guided several researchers leading to the award of doctoral degrees, organized seminars, participated in many international and national conferences, undertaken funded research  projects. Her assumption as the head of the Malayalam department has resulted in newfound enthusiasm in  digitization efforts, migration of text processing from stone age software to Unicode based systems, collaboration with publishing industry to impart newest technologies to the students of publishing oriented specialized courses, etc. Prof. Lissy Mathew is the principal gateway of Sayahna to the domain of academic world and she takes up the role of principal coordinator of the standardization of Malayalam language usage and creation of unified style book for the language.
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+#<strong>Radhakrishnan CV</strong> is a free software activist and {{TeX}} programmer, one of the founders of the [http://fsf.org.in/  Free Software Foundation of India] and [https://tug.org  Indian {{TeX]} Users Group]. He had organized two annual meetings of the {{TeX}} Users Group in Trivandrum in 2002 and 2011. Wrote several packages (libraries) in {{LaTeX}} and released under free license ({{sc|lppl}}) at Comprehensive  [https://ctan.org {{TeX}} Archive Network] ({{sc|ctan}}). He is one of the founders of [http://sayahna.org  Sayahna Foundation].