hi there are a few case studies at publicsectoross.info, and some more
(you'll have to search a bit) at http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/oso
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:10 +0300, ashok _ wrote:
I am looking for examples where governments have developed their
internal systems in an open source model.
And then there's this:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/nsas_linux.html
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, NASA has a couple of viable open source projects. Also the Dept of
the Navy in the US was a very early employer of Linux Kernel
If I understood Ashok's question right, he is looking for Governments
that have contributed back to Open Source, not just borrowed from it.
There may be a few examples, however I don't know of any significant
effort in this direction. Perhaps it's because Governments in general
are used to taking
At a state level, ELCOT has done something of this sort in Tamil Nadu
SuSE laptops distributed to bureaucrats (who probably all went and loaded
pirated doze on top of it..)
srs
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FWIW, NASA has a couple of viable open source projects. Also the
Dept of the Navy in the US was a very early employer of Linux Kernel
engineers and the NSF worked on a reliable version of Linux that
proved it could be done.
Danese
On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
If I understood Ashok's question right, he is looking for Governments
that have contributed back to Open Source, not just borrowed from it.
Exactly...thats what i am looking for.
There may be a few examples, however I don't know of
Ministry of Comms IT 's venture called NRCFOSS - National resource center
for FOSS, hosted by CDAC and Anna Univ have developed a distro for the Govt.
called BOSS (Bharitiya Open Source Solutions) . This is now getting
acceptance across Govt. They not only have a dedicated team working
One of NIC's applications has been placed in the public domain (I am not
sure if it is in the GPL or another open source license) and has been
downloaded by users in many other countries. Let me try to get more info on
this.
Regards,
Venky
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Valsa Williams
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Valsa Williams wrote:
| This distro is Debian based/GNU, and has Open Office in local
languages and
| other apps. They have done upstream contribution to Open Office.org and
| claim to have even contributed to Debian kernel.
it would interesting
