Hi Frank Frank Warmerdam wrote: ....
I've yet to return to some of the interesting email since I went away on the challenges in the developing world (though many of them - at a glance - seems similar to the challenges we face in the developed world).
Think are reffering to the e-mail from our colleagues in India. I would not consider India to be a part of the "developing world" as far as ICT is concerned. Large part of the proprietary software is "developed" in India. Lot happening in the FOSS too, largest Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop(SLED)Impementation in the world is in India at ELCOT(Government of Tamil Nadu). ELCOT has deployed SLED at 40,000 desktops across the state. The success story is now posted in a video prepared by ELCOT on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_g72GcaIdc The video is about 10 minutes in length. Quite impressive!! I think the major problems in promoting OSGeo tools is many countries is to do with education, lack of textbooks (I mean hard copy. e-books cannot work for everyone everywhere), and lack of data for the students to play with. The quality of soultions and cost-savings that could be acheived through adoption of OSGeo need to be more agressively promoted. Success stories of OSGeo based applications also need to be highlighted in a manner similar to ELCOT. Regards Venka _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss