2010/11/25 Guru गुरु <[email protected]> > Friends > > a. Govt of Gujarat has floated a tender for e-content creation for their > schools. They have specified the resources should work on the Ubuntu > GNU/Linux system. However most vendors are used to Flash for creating > animation. What are the FOSS options that these vendors could be asked to > consider? > > b. The Higher Education dept, Govt of Karnataka is revising its comp > science syllabus, the current one requires proprietary software to be used. > People interested in participating in the discussions with the dept > officials (pref Bangalore based) can let us know. > I am interested.
> > c. The UIDAI has asked Govt of Kerala to do the capture of UID data using > Windows machines. This would compel a govt using FOSS to go back to > proprietary software. Any action/letter FOSSCOMM can consider in this > regard? > Apparently UIDAI has assured Govt of Kerala that they would make it > GNU/Linux compatible 'later'. This reminds me of the 'Nudi' issue in > Karnataka. Govt of Karnataka has announced that Nudi would be made available > on both Windows and GNU/Linux. While the windows version was released > several years back, the GNU/Linux version is still not available, thereby > forcing users of Nudi to be on Windows only. This 'later' process is thus > problematic. > I remember the invitation of UIDAI for sourcing the client software compatible with all computing platforms. No one from the free/open source community might have responded, with the result that the windows solutions proposed by some commercial vendor might have been in use. Font rendering issues dog the open source platform. I have done some work towards Telugu. Pango with Lohit-Telugu on Ubuntu works fine for now. There is not enough work/coordination with upstream maintainers to resolve the same imho. Thanks Arjun
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