On Saturday 01 January 2011 11:59:47 jitendra wrote: > 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.
Geda works just fine as is. > 3. GIS : for egovernance > > Those interested may contact undersigned offline > > jitendra -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
