The undersigned wishes to find out if any effort on the following lines has been undertaken. I wish to contribute to the same or else initiate the same.
Background 1. The manufacturing sector needs a lot of 'commons' including basic or generic software on which some additions can be easily made for specific applications.particularly India can gain a lot if such teams are developed in India. 2. Education sector needs these very badly too. 3. Most graphics packages cannot be localized due to non-compatibility of opentype fonts for indian scripts(though unicode). I have successfully solved the same problem using FOSS for some packages. This requires further efforts on a national scale. 4. many great efforts have been made in the past but many are orphaned. 5. Teams are not in India. 6. Business models , if any are not clear , sustainability is in doubt. 7. I am located in IITB and can gather some resources ( human, financial and organisational) that can be useful 8. I am passionate about this (though I am not an expert in this , I know many who are) Organisational concerns 1. A Non-Govt effort with Govt (support to the extent available) 2. a commercially viable effort 3. a cooperatively managed effort with remuneration to contributors in a transparent manner 4. A non-profit research organization (foundation) to manage the functioning and own the IP 5. of course all development to be in pure FOSS , letter and spirit 6. Service to be the main revenue channel Domains currently (or initially ) focussed 1. Mechanical CAD : FreeCAD and CollabCAD brl-CAD may be starting points. Aim is to meet industry requirements 2. Electronic CAD : GEDA may be starting point. a more integrated package is needed. 3. GIS : for egovernance Those interested may contact undersigned offline jitendra -- jitendra
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