Dear all,
I am writing a note detailing projects that can speed up the adoption of
FLOSS in India and would like to hear from the list members on this
subject.
I would like to create a sharply defined list of say, ten specific
problems which students from engineering colleges can be asked to solve.
Ideally, these problems should be solvable by a group of people within
3-6 months so that these students can achieve a tangible goal.
Some of the suggestions I have received so far have been interesting.
These include:
* Developing an open source tool like VM Ware that can run both
Windows and Linux off the same CPU
* Developing an open source VoIP product like Skype
* Getting Internet Explorer working (natively?) on Linux (This
will be of particular help in increasing the penetration of
Linux in banks since many banking applications, though browser
based, are optimized to work on Linux)
* Reverse engineering Tally file formats and developing an open
source financial accounting package (or getting Tally to
work--natively--under Linux)
* Developing translation mechanisms for converting Internet
content from English to Indian languages and from one Indian
language to another
* Developing tools like Ximian Connector to connect to Micosoft
Exchange server etc.
If anyone can add to this list, I shall be grateful.
Regards,
Venky
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