On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:45 AM, J T Dsouza jtd1959@gmail.com wrote:
👍👍👍 Three cheers.
Most of us were involved between 1999 and 2007. There were numerous technical road blocks. The politics of technology and standards were of prime importance. There were massive wars on standards. And innumerable workshops held across the country on the politics of technology and the extraordinary paradigm shift that FOSS offered.
Regarding school curriculum, Nagarjuna and several of us had met the education secretary of Maharashtra. While states like Kerala went all out and implemented FOSS in schools, Maharashtra and the GOI went off on a tangent with Akash tablets.
As we speak http://www.digitalindia.gov.in/node/822 is happening.Yes tons of FOSS being used there and now and then i get queries for good hands for help.Had worked enough with Govt organizations now my take is they need to work on our terms if they need any more help not the other way round.
Yes Politics and Red Tapism is part and parcel of this game and we cannot escape it.
cheers
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