On 13-Sep-06, at 3:18 PM, Dinesh Shah wrote:
conventionaly when one writes an application, the client is
consulted. In this case the client is the government - and unless the
government accepts what is done, the project is a total waste. I
would suggest we ask the govt what their thinking in the matter is
before proceeding.
You are right that the customer should be consulted. However, many
times the customer may even do not know that they need such a solution
or such a solution is possible. In many cases customer may not be
aware of the existance of problem. ;-)
In such a case, the new idea should be formed and presented to the
potential customer. The idea should be practical and vialble in all
respect before it can be sold to the customer. :-D
there is the OneIndia project where the central govt is discussing
this. I you are serious about doing anything and actualy selling the
foss solution to the govt, it is imperative to keep in sync with
those discussions. And representing a limb of the said govt, i can
help out there, but only if the commitment to do something is there.
So far, i dont even see a wiki page emerging although I have offered
space. And if you want to talk to the goverrnment what better place
to point to than a wiki run by a FOSS project of the govt?
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Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
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