hi all: would like to share some thoughts -- with you, and thru you with ILUG-D members -- in the light of the exchanges at ILUG-D on BOSS. I wouldn't put this as a clarification or official response, but more as an exchange of information / perspective. I hope this will lead to cohesion & contribution to/from BOSS efforts.
1. Thanks to Nishant, Nalin, etc. for their appreciative sentiments, and to Karanbir, Kartik, Raj Mathur and others for their frank opinions. 2. Attn.: Manu Mohan : the workshops are targeted primarily at govt staff. We also have plans to support / organize a few sessions focusing on Academic segment. The "FOSS in Higher Education", is in fact the major activity of NRCFOSS at AU-KBC Research Centre (for which Satyaakam is one of the key persons). 3. BOSS distro : Both binary & the source code (with allied stuff) are available from the repository http://bosslinux.in/downloads 4. Indian language localisation : The .po files files, keyboard layouts, etc., are available at http://downloads.bosslinux.in/Localisation/ As vikram pointed out, the community will have to decide whether it is acceptable or not. I had some brief exchanges with Karunakar and Gora, and hope to get some focussed action in the near future. 5. There are a few packages like Bulk Document Converter, Presentation Tool, etc. -- integrated with BOSS distro, but could be candidates for stand alone packages. 6. Help Desk -- toll free number 1 800 4250 455 is operative from C-DAC Chennai Centre. Currently, there are 4-5 persons responding to queries during office working hours (10 - 5, mon-fri) catering to queries -- in Eng, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada. Mostly, the queries are requests for BOSS CDs/DVDs and on installation issues. <[email protected] <http://webmail.cdac.in/twig/index.php?&s%5Bmailbox%5D=mail%2Fsent-mail&s%5BmailGroup%5D=%2A&s%5Bmail_startmsg%5D=1&s%5Bsortby%5D=date&s%5Bsortbyway%5D=1&s%5Bdelete-return%5D=msgview&s%5Bmailtree%5D=0%7C&c%5Bf%5D=mail&c%5Ba%5D=compose&form%5bto%[email protected]>> is the email id for sending quries. thanks and best wishes Srinivasan. Dr. S. Srinivasan Project Scientist, NRCFOSS C-DAC Chennai [email protected] <http://webmail.cdac.in/twig/index.php?&s%5Bmailbox%5D=mail%2Fsent-mail&s%5BmailGroup%5D=%2A&s%5Bmail_startmsg%5D=1&s%5Bsortby%5D=date&s%5Bsortbyway%5D=1&s%5Bdelete-return%5D=msgview&s%5Bmailtree%5D=0%7C&c%5Bf%5D=mail&c%5Ba%5D=compose&form%5bto%[email protected]> 94443 02439 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
