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? > > *HTML5 *is the only way. My huge extensive research show there is problem with all other technologies. (also never listen to somebody who suggest gnash which is an open source version of flash, Let me repeat, software is not a problem, we want fully open standards)
I highly and strongly recommend my content guidelines - http://blog.narendrasisodiya.com/2010/10/indian-govt-must-fund-for.html http://blog.narendrasisodiya.com/2010/03/e-learning-modules-tutorials-guidelines.html http://blog.narendrasisodiya.com/2008/10/5-essential-aspects-of-educational.html > 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. > > Please use fosscomm or schoolos wiki so that we can participate.. > 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? > Approach should be 1) someone should create an initial version or final version of letter 2) ask on mailing list who want to endorse it. 3) Endorsing can be done on individual/organisation basic something like *FOSSCOMM is ...... and following fosscomm member organisation is endorsing the above letter* 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. > > Request inputs/suggestions/thoughts on above > > regards, > Guru > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘
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