Hello, Few weeks backs there was a post about a software called eBarnamala. This is the snippet from its website http://www.bvs.edu.np/eBarnamala/
"*eBarnamala was conceived as a play thing for small children. * The Programming effort was started exactly on 20th August, 2008, in Scratch first, and then onto Python. Currently the downloads are available as binary for windows and source for all other platforms. eBarnamala has been test on winxp (home and professional editions) and Ubuntu Linux 8.04. eBarnamala is written in Python and requires wxPython and PIL (Python Imaging Library) for its operation. It uses two fonts - Aalekh and Kalimati." IMHO, I think it is a very good FOS software and a tremendous effort by BVS to do some development based on Python. If I may say so, I have been involved in reviewing (just reviewing) the software from its early days and I have to admit that it has evolved beautifully. Without a doubt, it is among the software that has the potential to make big in both rural and urban schools and self-based learning centers. But, as with any product, without a proper publicity and adaptation, the product never attains the goal for which it is designed. Hence for this purpose, on behalf of FOSS Nepal and the Programmer Mr. Prabin Joshi, I would like to request all the FOSSians to distribute and use this software in every possible sites (i.e. schools, learning centers, e-Libraries, etc) we have FOSSians have access to. See, its a known fact that without pushing and advertising no product and no software can make big. The reason Ubuntu is big is because of the way Mark Shuttleworth subtly but effectively advertises his product. Moreover, the essence of FOSS has in some ways already been instilled into people's mind, hence the definite next step forward now would be to push home grown softwares like these into market and all the sites where FOSSians have access. So, on behalf of eBarnamala and FOSS I would once again like request members to firsty try it and use it in schools, learning centers, e-Libraries, etc. I also wish to request organizations like KUOSC and FOSS communities outside Kathmandu to distribute this software in there catchment centers and schools. This is among the first step towards transforming FOSS's image from just being an ideology to a viable solution for both enterprise and public sectors. So, I hope everyone in this list will take this opportunity and do all that they can in their reach to distribute this software. Cheers -- Shishir Jha EPC 1970,GPO 8975, KTM,NEPAL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
