New subject: [Fsf-friends] Re: [ilug-goa] Indic solution for *Government Distro* (long)

27 Jun 2003

      Interesting project. Anyone interested contact Jaco Aizenman 
jaizenman@fsc.cc The exchange below is self-explanatory. Kindly 
note that the release takes place on July 1. Apparently the links might be
not yet working. Sorry for the lengthy post. FN
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From fred@bytesforall.org Fri Jun 27 23:44:48 2003
Can someone on Indic Computing or Indian-eGov or even 
bytesforall_readers help with such work on 
Indianising this distro? Sounds interesting. FN
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jaco Aizenman wrote:
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Subject: Indiand and Chinese developers welcome - Draft of FSC Press 
release - Re: Marie
Fred, we cannot send you yet the *Government Distro* because it will be
available just after we finish some internacionalization features that
will maximize its efficiency in multilanguage countries like India, or
different typos like China.
Thats why we are looking for the *Red Flag* developers, and we will
apreciate also if you can contact us with Indian developers specialized
on adapting GNU/Linux Debian to the different Hindu languages.
Marlon who receives a copy is the *Government Distro* developers leader,
and Michelle, who also receives a copy, is the *Technical Government
Body* Coordinator. You may tell Cesar that Marlon and Michelle are
Brasilians....    ;-)
Marlon is coming to Costa Rica in August because he is giving a
presentation of the *Government Distro* to Costa Rican Government officials.
Please also find below the last version of the *Government Distro* press
release that will be announced next week.
FSC PRESS RELEASE
Free Software Distribution for Governments
A Free Software Package known as the "Government Distro" was launched
on July 1st by the Free Software Consortium (FSC), a global organization
dedicated to the promotion and commercialisation of Free Sofware.
The Government Distro is a compilation of programs widely used by
the public sector in Brazil, Argentina and Spain. It contains the
GNU/Linux Operating System, an Office-like suite called Open Office, email
and instant messenger, a calendar, a database, a web browser application
and many other programs.
All these applications have been used and tested previously in dozens
of Latin American and European users, in order to certify their
functionality.  They have all been designed by highly talented
programmers _from_ (all) around the world.
The Government Distro is meant to be a common free government system
platform for governments worldwide, both server and
client-side.
Therefore, "the Government Distro is a big step towards the implementation
of Free Software in the public sector around the world", says Marie
Lopardo, Communications and Marketing (Government Body) Coordinator.
...
To obtain a full version of _the_ Government Distro visit
www.fsc.cc/governmentdistro and register for it.
All the programs in _the_ Government Distro are user-friendly and
some have been in use since 1999.
_The_ Free Software Consortium is offering technical assistance for
Government Distro users.
For more information, please email governmentdistro@fsc.cc
Consortium Development
Free Software Consortium
FSConsortium.com
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jaco Aizenman wrote:

> Hello Karunakar,
> 
> The *Government Distro* is based on Debian. In the future we hopefully
> will have versions in other distros, as long as they are free...!  ;-) 
> 
> The only requisite for any software component of this *Government
> Distro*, to be included in this *Government Distro*, is that it is
> *already* being used by any Public Sector Government in the world. So
> for example, it is composed by www.linex.org , which is Debian and Gnome
> based, and being used today by the Public School system in the state of
> Extremadura, Spain, in 60,000 schools!.    :-)
> 
> It also has other software components from Brasil and Argentina, and we
> will like to include some other software components from India and China
> if possible for the first release...
> 
> A software component can be code like a router (Ututo R router, being
> used in Argentinian schools), customization features like the one
> *LinEx* has, or even application packages, like Government purchasing,
> Accounting, Tax collection, which as for today we do not have anything,
> but hopefully through the time, with the collective cooperation of
> several hackers working for free Governments projects, we may have a
> collective plataform which may fill the basic needs of many governments
> worldwide.  
> 
> We are releasing the first version until August, but anyone can have
> access to todays version if he/she can help our developing team who is
> leaded by Marlon Dutra.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jaco
> 

> > If you could give more detials on the distro then I can tell what can
> > be done in it -esp what all packages it includes. A copy to test would
> > be ideal!
> > 
> > <snip>
> > > > > To obtain a full version of _the_ Government Distro visit
> > > > > www.fsc.cc/governmentdistro and register for it.
> > 
> > The link is inaccessible!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Karunakar
> > 
> > -- 
> > ---------------------------
> > * Indian Linux project    *
> > * http://www.indlinux.org *
> > ---------------------------
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