On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, K.C. Ramakrishna <[email protected]>wrote:
> We definitely need more activity here. I don't know how many of you read > this: > http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/04/microsoft-edgi-secrets/ > Recently we have volunteered to contribute to IT systems for Lok Satta > Party. > We are trying to provide all solutions using FOSS technologies. We have > plans to build some FOSS software too. Please let me know if any one of > you are interested. This is purely voluntary of course. > Ahem Lok Satta certainly rings a bell , I remember Dr Anil Jampala mentioning about it in one of the Lug meetings in Hyd. Hope he is in good spirits after Satyam Fiasco, Foss and Politics in India i think have come a long way for example http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/ is running on Linux , i am sure there may be more instances of those , Who knows what will happen to Foss after they win the election or the company who is helping them now. talking about Hyd whats happening with http://nisg.org/ and http://www.hrdiap.gov.in/ about later i remember seeing a huge infra structure made for training in M$ technologies thanks to M$. Recently we built a data entry app in OpenOffice Base. We will take up > more projs as time permits. We can do more work if some of you > volunteer. > Our next step is a helping set up a helpdesk system and as we go fwd, we > want to look at an Enterprise deployment like Liferay. Of course all > software developed will be under GPL. > > Go ahead and scratch your itch with politicians , Let me guess you must be a comitee member for IT in LSP if not can you ask them to change from IIS to Apache and Windows2000 to Gnu/Linux , if you have not tasted it , it would be a fun excercise on a small scale about the resistance to change and fi and buts for buy in . Yes i see they are using php in some way. -Satya http://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaakam _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
