For those interested in FLOSS applications/initiatives in government.: I was looking for some information about voter registration. Found a interesting page about FLOSS on Election Commission website.
http://www.eci.gov.in/DevForum/DevForum.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------- Indic Languages Major portion of R&D has gone into movement from ISCII/ISFOC into Unicode for various Indian languages, and enabling them on the net. Wikipedia has an excellent page on Indic Languages. To see sample usage, follow various subsections on this page, as well as Search Electoral Rolls section, and Genesys Archives. ---------------------------------------------------------------- FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) We encourage use of Free/Open Source solutions. Though at ECI and State level, databases are consolidated in Oracle, we encourage smaller databases at the levels of ERO/DEO to be in MySQL, Postgres etc. We are big supporters of OpenOffice.Org. Election Machinery across the country is also encouraged to use freeware like IrfanView for Imaging, GRASS, MapServer, Google Maps API etc. for GIS etc. Our databases are mostly XMLised now, and in this section also, we have released most of the databases in XML format rather than any proprietary format. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Vijay Patil -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
