> >> One another person I can think of is an IAS officer in TN Cadre called >> Umashankar. He was the MD of ELCOT. He single-handedly moved a good >> lot of govt offices in TN to FOSS. It was a mammoth and great effort. >> So much so that folks were swearing by the ease of use of FOSS.
As Debayan mentioned, I got a chance to interact with Mr. Umashankar while he had come for a conference in Bangalore. Thanks to Karthik from FSMK who introduced me to Mr. Umashankar. He is a strong believer and supporter of FOSS. His work can be noticed in www.elcot.in He has uploaded linux drivers on a government website and seen to it that Computer Hardwares which support GNU/Linux will only be procured by TN state government. Elcot also bought all the rights of Tamil Fonts from a private organisation and now as released it free for download, hence saving the TN state government to buy the fonts each and every time. He himself uses Ubuntu for all his official purposes and had seen to it that all IAS officers in the state get preloaded GNU/Linux laptops. He took the training for them himself. [OT] Luckily since he was free yesterday evening, we visited Ambedkar Computer Community Centre, which is an initiative by FSMK. Here are some pics, http://picasaweb.google.co.in/stove311987/EveningAtAC3WithMrUmashankarAndOtherFSMKGuys You can know more about AC3 here, http://bangalore.aidindia.org/ac3 -- Regards, Vignesh B. Tech in Computer Science National Institute Of Technology-Durgapur _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
