On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 21:55, Russell McOrmond wrote: > I did meet up with Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala from IIT madras who was > presenting at GlobalCN last week > <http://weblog.flora.org/article.php3?story_id=253>. We didn't have much > chance to talk, but he spoke about some TeNeT projects to get Networked > PC's out to rural areas. The hope is to grow computer communications in > the way that STD has for telephone. > > http://www.tenet.res.in/ > > I asked him about the use of Free Software. While these workstations > duel/dual boot with GNU/Linux, they also have Windows. They also spent a > fair amount of resources on localizing Microsoft Office for a few > languages. > > I am wondering if people here could connect to this project and see what > more can be done to move these services off of Microsoft and onto entirely > Free Software. It would be great to see these project allow people in > remote villiages to actually participate in Free Software projects. >
In Bangalore, I had met Dr. Hema Murthy from IIT-M who is also working in this project. They have some real interesting hacks, and as far as I know, they are now implementing it somewhere in west india and there the clients are totally on Free Software They had to use M$ products on the boxes as they needed localised office, browser, email clients etc. That was quite easy in Win* because technology in Free Software is quite behind Win in terms of localisation, especially indic language support. Of course, in Bangla, we might be able to turn the tables on M$, because, ultimately, the first bangla OS may be a Free OS :D -iti- sdg -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
