On Friday 04 October 2002 18:37, pandarinathan raman wrote: > I think its time we teach software freedom than > preach. > Unless we make effort to show successful installations > we can never make inroads in any sector. I also faced > similar situations with few people in Railways. But > the attitude should be educating them than casting > aspirations. Well I too have very good bosses, who The situation is not that easy here. It appears to be a planned move, a well planned one. In so far as the argument of setting up a system on Linux goes, the District Panchayat of Ernakulam had a project called EIID (now rechristened OSS) that had applications built over Linux for the Grama Panchayats, way back in 2000. The project itself had been funded by District Panchayat (more details might turn up on a google search).
> It is imperative on our part to create awarness, > specifically in the top level and this can be done > only by successful installtions in existing computer > centeres Ramanunni had been trained in one out the twenty five odd awareness courses conducted in this area at this institute, setup for training the local bodies in Kerala. That process still continues. Hence we could easily start building up our case for taking a shot at the Government machinery. CK Raju Kerala Institute of Local Administration. _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
