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Subject: FOSS-PDI Digest, Vol 4, Issue 12
Date: Sunday 31 July 2005 09:30
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1. Request for Feedback: India FOSS Report (Sunil Abraham)
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:17:38 +0530
From: Sunil Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FOSS-PDI] Request for Feedback: India FOSS Report
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Dear Colleagues,
The IOSN/APDIP/UNDP has commissioned ICT expert and FOSS advocate
Fredrick Noronha to produce 6 FOSS country reports. The India report is
now publicly available for comments and feedback.
Please view it from here:
http://www.iosn.net/country-reports/india/
<snippet>
India, with its population of one-billion plus, has a rich tech talent,
considerable interest in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and a
network of some 80-plus user groups across its landmass (some active,
some less). This offers wide potential.
But officialdom -- apart from a few high-profile statements -- have been
slow to wake up to the world of FOSS. Not enough is being done to
promote FOSS in higher education, though the official syllabus.
There are impressively-large user groups in places like Bangalore,
Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. There are also nationwide networks
like the Linux India network and the Free Software Foundation-India
(headquartered in Kerala in South India). In addition, a ring of
medium-sized user-groups have also proliferated in smaller cities and
towns, taking the technology right into the hands of the
user-practitioner.
But much remains to be done in terms of providing official support for
FOSS growth in a region which could surely benefit hugely from it.
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We would be very grateful if you could send in your comments and
feedback by 10 August 2005.
Thanks,
Sunil
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