On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Amol Hatwar <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] > How to kill these two birds with a single stone, proactively? Well, a central > software/productivity clearance center can be set up. The job is to help > state governments spec out requirements minus the software packages required. > If the idea is to build a bridge, governments have no business saying whether > it has to be a suspension, cable-stayed, girder etc. The design and solution > in question has to "evolve" from situational and other needs. Also, success > stories of already implemented solutions can be put up and circulated. Copy > pasting already working solutions (with customizations) will not only save > time and money - but the saved budgets can be used to go the next level of > productivity and software enhancements. Unsurprisingly enough, the NIC does have within its charter to do exactly as you state above. And, it has officers who do so. The unfortunate part is that the sporadic efforts at FOSS within NIC(s) are aimed at re-inventing the wheel instead of forming a project forge which can be used across state deployments or, deployments of functional similarity. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
