Thanks Jay.
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:44, Jay Jacob wrote:
> Minutes of the meeting for ILUG-COCHIN
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> Date : 27/06/2004
> Place : Internet Club, Broadway, Cochin-31
> Agenda : Linux in Government
> No. of Attendees : 9
>
> Details:
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>
> ILUGCOCHIN met at 2:00pm at the Internet Club Broadway. The meeting was
> kicked off with the Agenda, that was about the Government in the USA deciding
> to use Linux in the Federal courts of the USA. A contract worth $ 9 million
> has already been awarded to a consortium backed up by Redhat, RedFlag,
> Turbolinux, Miracle Linux, Connectiva, Suse in conjunction with Bakbone
> software to form what they call the Linux Advantage. Bakbone is engaged in
> the fast backup and recovery of Linux systems and has a suite of applications
> for the purpose.
>
> We can see that even the Big corporates who had earlier refused to join any
> sort of consortium has now come into a grouping that has a big financial
> advantage. This shows that the corporates are now taking up the responsibitly
> of backing up the GNU/Linux Software. This may lead to a sidelining of the
> community efforts and the communitys effort may decline over the years as it
> has been from the onset of commercialisation of Linux.
>
> Therefore members were of the general opinion that the community should also
> take active part in such backup and recovery measures and must strive for
> creating the infrastucture so that community development and involvement can
> be accelerated and a community development center for Software and backup and
> recovery be established at the soonest. Varoius suggestions as to how this
> could be done were taken up, more suggestions are required.
>
> The community should also be able to partake and share the fruits of
> development and members encouraged ideas on how we would be able to attain
> the goal of a community software development Center.
>
>
> This was then followed by the 2nd part of the meeting, a demo was organised
> by Mr Balakrishnan of Linix of Indian Bank, for Tex which could do the type
> setting in Malayalam, this proved to be a very simple and effective tool
> which many of our members were not aware of.
>
> This ended the meeting for June.
