I too hope that Government sustains the seriousness on digital freedom.
Well, even with scope of funding available, it is still very difficult
to get.
And if we do get a positive reply, there are always "strings attached "
to some funding.
So yes implementation is still a challenge in many ways.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Saturday 02 May 2015 10:40 AM, satyaakam goswami wrote:
FOSS is now mainstream, and government policy is almost entirely
pro - with reference to policy. There are sufficient government
advisers from academia who will keep it this way.
Hopefully they stay that way in the years to come.
The real problem is in the implementation. No funding is provided
outside of govt. bodies (such as NIC) or Govt. funded
organisations (CDAC/IITs/etc) to develop or provide services using
Open Source, and never reaches the wider community.
[Leading statement for members of this list to initiate a group
rant...]
True , the money is locked in the these Fiefdoms and work in
isolations without any transparency and dialogue with citizens on the
topic.
On the other hand, we should realise that Open Source activists in
India still maintain the abrasive, confrontational attitude useful
for a guerrilla movement but redundant and counter-productive for
an established argument. The wider community is also largely
hobbyists, moon-lighters and isolated individuals or small groups
who are far too fragmented, and the real solution is to provide an
platform to organise production and service capacity rather than
rhetoric and posturing.
This too has changed in last few years , i call it folks getting
reformed .
An incubator with a lean structure to organise groups that can
work in project-mode is one such possibility. There are huge
opportunities - and FOSS can essentially be dovetailed into a
"Make-In-India" "Make-For-India" success story with support from
the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises.
This is something i am interested in seeing , actually therer is a
scope for many orgs in the space who can collaborate as a collective .
I am useful as a space for meeting and at best organising thought
- unfortunately both also redundant in the age of the internet.
Translation requires more professional commitment and capability
and would require others to step up.
yes you are a great host for all of us :-) . as recent as day before
yesterday my students were recalling the Nimbu pani you served every
time they have been on the campus .
thanks
-Satya
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