Greetings, On 2/9/11, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2011 13:20:50 Koustubha Kale wrote: > >> >> Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational trust based in Thane >> on outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has schools and >> colleges providing education to about 15000 students. >> > > Hmm. I seemed to have the missed the announcements on this list then. > >>
Publication from one of the conferences conducted: http://vpmthane.org/pub_2006_linux/home.htm Hmm... Yes Shri. Koustubha is too modest about his contributions to the FOSS Movement. He has been the leading light of FLOSS in Thane in terms of execution and operation of FOSS project and not just stopping at Proof of Concept as many educational institutions do. I will be forever grateful to him for allowing me to work with him during our foray into RHCS (High Availability -- Redhat -- erm.. Centos -- Cluster Suite) and His configuration of Software RAID + DRBD + LTSP His RHCS with DRBD+CLVM+GFS+LVS (Linux Virtual Server) for Desktop usage is something to be admired especially when viewed through the prism of uncertainty then and with an extremely constrained budget. Not to mention his home-grown NAS solution. It is still running with more or less original production config files. Full Disclosure: Yes, I was administering a part of the setup he speaks about for some period of time few years back. Pitch for Thane: Thane is extremely well connected to Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Navi Mumbai etc. There are a huge number of educational other institutions along the Mumbai Pune expressway which need Koha and .possibility and willingness to participate We have a huge commercial technical pool of Linux/Unix/datacenter Engineers in and around Mumbai who we can tap upon. Talk of FSF India, whose Dr. Nagarjuna delivered keynote in the Linux Thane 2006. Redhat, CDAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST) and many others participated which also had a something on Indian language computing. VPM's Chairman Dr. V. V. Bedekar has supported fully the efforts of Lat Prof. R. K. Joshi during the passing of Unicode pages for many Indian scripts at the Unicode Consortium. CDAC-Mumbai has fantastic Gems in Open source for example Indix. Please support KohaConf Thane. Regards, Rajagopal -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
