On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Indranil Das Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > Good news! The lobbying for use of FOSS tools by IOTA / Govt of WB for > CBT development has given some result. Late last evening Shri Tamal > Sen, writing in his capacity as the secretary of IOTA, sent out an > email that read as follows (the upper-casing is Shri Sen's signature > style) : > > [quote] > > LET US JOIN HANDS AND PREPARE > AT LEAST ONE CBT USING FOSS > TOOLS > > Rgds > > TAMAL SEN > > [/quote] > > So now we (the members of the FOSS community) have been called upon to > "prove" that alternative CBT development is possible using FOSS. > Right. With due respect to Mr Sen's position, I trust he has not misunderstood the 'F' in FOSS. He needs to put out a tender asking for bids to create a CBT, specifying 1. No use of unpaid commercial tools (so no use of tools supplied cheap for 'educational purposes' - they call that pirated); 2. level playing field by supplying bidders with all supplementary materials and documentation in open standard formats; 3. based on his (or rather, his department's) prior experience with CBT development, a minimum floor price not less than the last CBT for which they paid, or if for some reason that was justifiably on the high side, the average of the last 3 CBTs. I am sure there will be many FOSS bidders (and a few non-FOSS players too, as long as there's a party in the offing) ready to join hands with him, enthusiastically. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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