Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source
http://efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=73727 OSS Used In Aadhaar To Avoid Vendor lock-in: Balasubramanian EFY News Network (Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:34:20 PM) The main reason to use OSS (open source software) in the Aadhaar project was not to save cost but to avoid vendor lock-in. And it was important that we have an ability to replace hardware, software or storage, Regunath Balasubramanian, principal architect of the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) project said in his keynote titled Use of OSS in Aadhaar project – The World’s Largest Identity Platform at OSI Days 2011, Bengaluru. He further added, “We have also reduced licence cost for the world’s largest distributed deployment on thousands of CPU cores. We used OSS like Apache Hadoop, Hive, ZooKeeper, MySQL, Tomcat, Spring and Mule. So far, 60 million enrollments have been made in 18 months, and about 1 petabyte of data processed and archived.” The continued success of Aadhaar can promote the use of OSS in e-governance for large and complex systems, Balasubramanian added. URL: http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=73686 ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org wrote: IMHO, the use of open source, or the lack thereof, is a smaller problem here: The lack of even a sham at protecting individual privacy is a definite problem. Personally, as far as I am concerned, it cannot be soon enough that the IUD^W UID money-grab comes to an end. Too bad that it seems like that public money has already been spent on this cynical (from the side of the proponents) boondoggle. I suppose that this is peanuts compared to the standard scams that the Indian public seems to have gotten used to, but nevertheless. Well said, Gora. For a nice discussion of some of these other issues, people may want to look at the recent issue of Frontline (http://www.frontlineonnet.com). Further OT : A PDF of that is in available at http://goo.gl/zDoL3 ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's company) and MS hub. Can someone provide some concrete info or pointers? -- bSwapnil Bhartiya/bbr Editor: Muktware.combr Their data-entry module has a linux version that i supposed to work on Ubuntu 10.4. It was made when forced to use Linux by the Kerala Governent. No one gives help on this, so, if an agency wishes to sue it, they are on their own. Hence, there is a sort of indirect promotion of widow OS, while the talk of Open-source is all the time there when talking t events etc. Rest of the work is being done by fewer agencies and its not clear what they use. But even in Kerala they are not using it now. All are in windows. and more over the Biometric scanners works only with Windows . There is no vendor independence here , Both Scanner supply and deduplication will be done by L-1 Security solutions (OT: which also have former CIA people on sitting on their board) I have seen some tweets about CIDR is using MySQL (from OSI India days presentation by a UIDAI guy) . But while going through #UIDAI documents , the general perception i am getting is this. UIDAI assumes several practices when put into operation will overcome the horrendous impracticality of biometric id systems. Anivar ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Hi, Tirveni and I just completed a large (~2500 desktops + ~40 servers) installation of Debian -- Squeeze and Wheezy -- in 6 locations in India. Was wondering, is anyone aware of larger or comparable Debian installations in the country? Or should we be spraining our wrists trying to pat ourselves on our backs? Largest Debian Installation in India was IT@school Project of Kerala till 2 years back. But now they shifted to an Ubuntu Derivative. Anivar -- [It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information. - Donald Knuth ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Indlinux-group] Workshop for NGO's on Free and Open Source Software and local language computing
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:34 PM, shantanu choudhary shant...@sarai.net wrote: Hello All, Sarai, and NGO-in-a-box (developed by Mahiti, Bangalore), I thought NGO in a box is developed by Tacticaltech Team http://ngoinabox.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] DeepaMehta is GPL
मनीष wrote: Java errors are anyways completely opaque to me. I think I will stick with Freemind for now. I still prefer vym -- Anivar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
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