-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote:
> Hmm!! I posted this one 9th June and url was valid. > Anyway this is from their archive > > http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1070609/9bus2.htm Ahh that's far better - this is from the perspective of the CII meet which Eben Moglen was scheduled to attend but did not make it in time. > Just for a general overview!! A significant number of "new" deployments in WB which fall under the purview of the National E-Governance Plan [1] would be rolled out on FOSS based software solutions with the mandate of using Open Standards and Open Architecture. Already there are pilot projects under the Panchayat & Rural Development, Land Records, Road Transport and Employment Exchange. Most of the pilots are either classical 2-tier or a SOA based architecture. There is a large desktop user base (off hand projections are around 100,000 in the coming 6 months). Read more here [2] The pain points are: * Converting existing data in legacy encoding to UTF-8 * Training of System Administrators/Desktop Administrators * Managing Desktops * Innovating on hardware for areas where the following conditions apply o Low/fluctuating power supply o Lack of bandwidth and usage of alternate connectivity methods * Content generation :Sankarshan [1] http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan.php [2] http://mit.gov.in/default.aspx?id=831 - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGcMdMXQZpNTcrCzMRAn1ZAJ0TPNIfxwZo45Aaj7novJ5igV9WtACgglG5 eLYFTvkJs9PI/TUKWQs08PQ= =ZsOP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
