👍👍👍 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.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Rushabh Mehta rmehta@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Milind,
Thanks for your detailed response. Love your spirit and I hope something good comes out of it. You are right on the money when you say that despite major policy wins, what we see on the ground is pretty disappointing. But progress comes in bits and pieces and every fight is important. Do keep us updated and let us know if we can be of any help, even though I do not agree with your strategy. The “experts” can easily say what ever is true of other Linux distros is also true of BOSS.
I am also extremely disappointed and disillusioned by the government and the Digital India campaign that started off with a lot of fan-fare, but there is absolutely zero outreach from the government. Doing contests and hackathons are a great and easy way to get community involved but there is no real intent of the government doing anything and no early adopters either.
One way (the only way) we see out of this is to put our energy in making and improving viable alternatives that will make the paid ones irrelevant.
best, Rushabh