On Dec 15, 2009, at 9:36 AM, sankarshan wrote: > 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.
I was looking at NIC, but my previous interactions with them haven't at all been fruitful. Last time I had a talk with them, they refused to open the source of even the most simple and basic applications. Well, something needs to be done... Cheers, Amol Hatwar _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
