FriendsRecently the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, which is a deemed university and well known for its academic prowess in the social sciences arena, decided to adopt FOSS.
Nagarjuna and I recently met with the Director and TISS is planning to migrate to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, Open Office, Thunderbird and Firefox for its desktops in a phased manner with support from HBSC and FSF (both of which Nagarjuna is associated with)
I am attaching a letter I wrote to the Director, which resulted in this meeting with him, this could be used as a 'template' for writing to all public education institutions, suggesting that they have special reasons to adopt FOSS and avoid proprietary software. While we may not have the same success in other cases, it would certainly increase awareness in mainstream public education institutions that 'FOSS is the right way to go'. We have also requested that TISS should also write out its migration as a 'case study' that could be shared with other public institutions as well.
regards, Guru -- Gurumurthy Kasinathan IT for Change Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities Tel:98454 37730 www.ITforChange.net http://Public-Software.in http://content-commons.in *IT for Change is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with United Nations’ Economic and Social Council* Are you using pirated proprietary software? Move to Free and Open Source Software instead :-) . For FOSS options, please visit http://public-software.in/taxonomy/term/38/all
Letter to Prof Parasuraman, TISS October 2009 - use of FOSS.odt
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