The winner of Jan 2009 is Omkar Joshi of GaMaBhaNa. Since Omkar is in India, my only option of sending award is by Paypal or postal mail. I hope that Omkar will enjoy the "free" beer. :)

GaMaBhaNa is one of the easiest and Free, Open Source, web based and offline utility available to type phonetically in multiple Indian languages including Marathi, Hindi (Devanagari), Gujarathi, Bangla, Gurumukhi, Kannada, Malyalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu along with English.
It is released under GNU LGPL license.

With gamabhana library and gamabhana phonetic maps you can:
- Attach phonetics to editable html tags such as iframe and/or input (single line) and/or textarea and/or document.
- Design your own transliteration maps for any language/script.
- Achieve Unicode support across browsers, applications, platforms.
- Type in the context phonetically ( direct input method) in IE ( V 5 above) and Firefox Mozilla.

Please join me in congratulating Omkar for all the good work he has been doing and wish him good luck.