[Forwarding without prejudice. Actually, with a bit of prejudice -- Rishab's FLOSSWorld survey has come out with interesting insights in the past, and I strongly recommend that you fill out the questionnaire yourself, as well as forwarding to other lists where Linux-type people hang out.
-- Raju] From: "Aparna Ramamurthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raj Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Free/Libre Open Source Software Survey Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:46:31 +0530 Dear Madam / Sir Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is becoming more and more important for the public sector and public administration. Recently, MERIT at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands) carried out a number of surveys on that topic, supported by the European Union. Some very important questions regarding this Open Source Software movement remained, however, unanswered. All research that has been undertaken so far did not sufficiently represent the situation outside Western Europe, North America and Japan. This is why as part of the FLOSSWorld project, with a large international group of researchers, we would like to survey companies from many regions around the world including India. For the purpose of getting valuable information from the Indian side, we rely heavily on your support, because you and your colleagues are among the few who have the experience and expertise to help us in revealing a realistic picture of the role of FLOSS for the public administration in India. Therefore, we would like to ask you to spare a few minutes and complete the survey form. The more public sector bodies respond, the better and more accurate the survey results will be. FLOSSWORLD is a scientific project that is financed by the European Commission and carried out by the University of Maastricht and several partners, including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and the National Association of Software and Service Companies in India. It serves exclusively the public research interest. The information you provide will be kept strictly confidential, and nobody outside the FLOSSWORLD research team will have access to personalised data. Moreover, all results we publish will ensure that the identification of persons who have replied to the questionnaires will be impossible. You can find the participant's survey at http://www.flossworld.org/survey/dev_open.php If you have any further questions or comments on this topic do not hesitate to contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The FLOSSWORLD team C-DAC Mumbai. -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
