at bottom :- On 06/07/2017, Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snipped> > > Rather than relying on commercial interests like Hathway and Reliance, > the government, if they are serious about FOSS adoption, should > empower (fund) NIC and the educational institutions to host FOSS > repos. To the best of my understanding, repos at the IITs exist > because of dedicated FOSS individuals within those orgs. and not > because of some policy. Take the case of NRCFOSS - way back in > 2005-2009 time frame it was active, promoting FOSS at various regional > colleges but now it has gone into oblivion perhaps due to lack of > funds. Crowd funding is an option but I'm not hopeful that it can > generate viable funds. I think that's expecting a bit too much from our babus. As it is it's only 22 percent of gram panchayats who have got broadband connectivity in what 7+ years of the project . http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/bharatnet-project-monitoring-no-broadband-connectivity-in-78-pct-gram-panchayats-ambitious-project-failing-deadlines/751785/ The best way if they really wanted to help would be to have a bittorrent service with a tracker stating where they are hosting and advertising the same to other trackers. That would be easiest and speediest way to do it. From whatever little experience I have had dealing with Govt. websites even the most innocuous info. is tucked away in some god-forsaken corner where it's hard to reach without somebody knowing the exact URL. The only bright light I have seen is IRCTC and recently BSNL's own portal which I understood have been somewhat freed through numerous RTI queries etc. As far as IIT Mumbai mirror is concerned it was and always has been an individual or a group effort at the most. The Debian mirror at IIT Mumbai has usually been out of whack (8 hrs. to 3 days late) then what's been happening on the actual network. At the easiest, you can use net-select and see which mirrors it tells you are more current and have the lowest latency, you would be surprised. To do this, we would have to have at least 3-4 free software groups banding together, raising RTI queries and also putting on something like change.org and make a big noise about it. Europeans for sure will help us. I am sure funds are there in GOI's budget, it's just getting them out and into the right hands. My 2 paise. > -- > Arun Khan > _______________________________________________ > plug-mail mailing list > plug-mail@plug.org.in > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail > -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
