Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-04 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
Niyam, On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, jitendra wrote: >> IOTA has done it well to ask a professional to analyse the FOSS >> alternatives. >> Often the FOSS enthusiasts miss out on this. I am sure much of this is >> buried into the To-Do lis

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-04 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:07 AM, jtd wrote: > One cannot comment on the report without the first part >  "basis of the requirement for CBT development project" The Govt of WB, is in the process of placing computers in schools under the ICT in Schools program. The OS bundled would be Ubuntu 9.10 a

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: >> am using FOSS for professional and production-intensive projects, >> works for me. >> the only real problem is with video-edit, for which i'd recommend move >> to blender3d of all things.

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-04 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: > am using FOSS for professional and production-intensive projects, > works for me. > the only real problem is with video-edit, for which i'd recommend move > to blender3d of all things. Have you tried openshot ? regards Vivek -- The hidden

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, jitendra wrote: > IOTA has done it well to ask a professional to analyse the FOSS > alternatives. > Often the FOSS enthusiasts miss out on this. I am sure much of this is > buried into the To-Do lists and buglists of the developers. > [snip] hmmm am using F

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-03 Thread jtd
One cannot comment on the report without the first part "basis of the requirement for CBT development project" What is this "requirement". Does this person understand standards and file formats? The minister should have mandated an equal weightage team of FLOSS tool experts, if not doing away

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-03 Thread jitendra
IOTA has done it well to ask a professional to analyse the FOSS alternatives. Often the FOSS enthusiasts miss out on this. I am sure much of this is buried into the To-Do lists and buglists of the developers. But the decision makers who need to employ the software in production environment, need r

[fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-03 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
[With apologies for X-posting] Hi all, Recently I had posted on my blog ("Making change happen - the case of the IOTA job ad" - http://indradg.randomink.org/blog/archives/150) how the Institute for Open Technology and Applications (IOTA - the autonomous society setup by Dept of IT, Govt of WB) ha