After going through the thread, I have an observation: Do some of us realise that these institutions may not be delivering what we expect, not because that they do not want to do it, but because, perhaps that they have no clue how to do it. It has some thing to do with the developer / manager education and training.
What does the average programmer in most shops use to develop these sites - do they hard code or they use some toolkit? Suppose some one uses a toolkit which is popular on Windows - he has been doing it and thats the only thing he knows, he will produce what we call Hall of shame sites. His manager is not bothered either, as he needs to "get the job done at the earliest". The manager uses the easiest and cheapest resource available to him. His problems start when the FOSS community start bombarding that the site does not work. His programmer simply puts a blank face: I do'nt know what these guys want / how to do so as to make it run on Firefox/ Opera. Other programmers are still plain lazy - why should I do it: In any case 90%+ visitors to my site don't have a problem, and in the balance only less than 0.1% may ever register a complaint. So the situations just keeps sailing. Most managers in such situations also have an "ignore" attitude, bcoz it doesnt affect their targets / KPAs. Do we have pointers to resources for such guys: Both programmers and managers to be able to do it in toolkit of their choice? anand _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
