Hi Brian, Take a look at the FOSS migration that was performed at Uganda Martyrs University some years ago. There are an enormous amount of lessons to be learned (good/bad) from this project. A writeup of the project is in an article of Emmanuel Mulo and myself. See: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_3.asp#8
The book that I wrote with Arjan de Jager on Free and Open Software for Development also contains a chapter on migration. The book can be viewed on http://webyes.com.br/wp-content/uploads/ebooks/book_floss_for_development.pdf Good luck with writing and please share the end result with the people on the list. Victor On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Brian Ssennoga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > a local magazine has approached me to write an article on open source > migration - and in order to get great information on Ugandan (and other) > case studies, i figured there was only one place to turn! To You. > > Please share a brief on any successful Open Source Migration you have > carried out, or been part of. Also include this: > 1. 2 Sentence Company Profile > 2. Company Policy on FOSS > 3. Scale and Scope of Migration > 4. Choosing which apps to move to OSS > 5. How the company Selected a vendor > 6. How The company plans to deal with support issues > 7. Staff training > > Am sure this will enrich other research on this list as well. > > Would be happy to receive responses by Wed 28th July '10 > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
