On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Srinivasan Sundararajan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear shrini, you may recall that I had suggested that some of you meet up > with dr. Nakkeeran, director of Tamil virtual academy.There is an advisory > committee to recommend hardware and software for the incubation centre. A > meeting is scheduled on 10th. Some of you could suggest the software set > from FOSS arena - can be sent to me or discussed and collated in this list > so that I can pass on the same during the meeting.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZeOGy8TmCP8/UXzZ4dxT3hI/AAAAAAAATS0/_RWe4YjAMZg/w697-h428-p-o/tamil-vu-software_1.jpg http://www.dinamalar.com/news_detail.asp?id=696684 In this news, there is no information about incubation center or entrepreneurship. > To start with, the recommendation is to provide development facilities to > individuals or small groups. While the govt would like to use the output in > the state depts and agencies, the developer has an option to take the > product and sell. We plan to suggest the FOSS route, but there are many > steps in between. When is the execution starts? How can people approach the center for their development works? Do they have to pay any fee? How long a startup can be incubated there? Is there any public announcements of these offers? > I fell the following action will help: > Recommend a plethora of FOSS tools and apps which will help the developer > While windows, photoshop, etc., are likely to enter the space, we plan to > ensure that at least 3-4 systems will be Linux based, MySQL -PostgreSQL can > be the main databases, libreoffice, gimp, blender, orca, etc., will find a > place. Mr. Prince from Nic and myself on behalf of nr cfoss/cdac, with help > from other members (mani manivannan, chellappan) hope to offer FOSS related > support from the organs, lug and other communities. Good initiatives. Will there any announcement for getting suggestions from public.? or this is once of the closed group activities? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
