[Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender
- From: pavithran.s@xxxxxxxxx (pavithran)
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:11:50 +0530
On 5 September 2011 10:47, kenneth gonsalves <lawgon at thenilgiris.com> wrote:
which IIT students?
<quote from the first comment Srujan Kumar Executive Committee
Member, FSFTN IIT Madras >
What you have put up is great news. However, this decision has not
been made just because some IIT students intervened but as a result of
a two-month long campaign in which the Free Software Foundation, Tamil
Nadu organised signature campaigns, met IAS officers and the Minister
and worked closely with the media.
This, i think would be evident from the fact that the article in The
Hindu which first raised the issue has references to FSFTN's work on
the issue. See..
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article2419753.ece
Also, see..
http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/26/stories/2011062662590400.htm
FSFTN has students from IIT and also a larger group of professionals
and students from outside. Our first step in this campaign was..
http://www.fsftn.org/tn-students-laptop-petition
and more recently..
http://fsftn.org/content/we-condemn-act-removing-free-software-latest-tender-free-laptop-scheme
</quote>
Interesting !
Going to BOSS is a good move , atleast a public funded distribution is
going for some public initiative aka getting used .
BOSS team needs to ensure that
1 .The distribution quality is maintained
2. All the hardware is supported out of the box .
3. Load the distribution with software which is really essential .
4. Make sure that they train some groups and make them test the distribution.
5. *listen* to feedback from community(debian , local ILUGC ) and try
to work towards making it more community oriented .
Regards,
Pavithran
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pavithran sakamuri
http://look-pavi.blogspot.com
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