Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-11 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
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.

[silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread ashok _
Hi, I am looking for examples where governments have developed their internal systems in an open source model. I can find plenty of examples where linux was deployed, and open source components were used (mysql, apache etc...), but few examples for whole systems which were open-sourced (for e.g.

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Gautam John
: [silk] open source in government Hi, I am looking for examples where governments have developed their internal systems in an open source model. I can find plenty of examples where linux was deployed, and open source components were used (mysql, apache etc

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
_ Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:41 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] open source in government Hi, I am looking for examples where governments have developed their internal systems in an open source model. I can find plenty of examples where linux

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:41 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] open source in government Hi, I am looking for examples where governments have developed their internal systems in an open source model. I can find plenty of examples where linux was deployed, and open source

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Danese Cooper
, April 09, 2008 1:41 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] open source in government Hi, I am looking for examples where governments have developed their internal systems in an open source model. I can find plenty of examples where linux was deployed, and open source components were

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread ashok _
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

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Valsa Williams
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

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
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

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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