Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-03 Thread PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
> > Yes, I agree there are plenty of students and professionals who are > contributing to Open Source projects but the ratio is very less in numbers. > But my context was to implement this in schools, colleges and universities > so that they can start from an early stage. Correct me if I am wrong.

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Sahil ModGill wrote: > Yes, I agree there are plenty of students and professionals who are > contributing to Open Source projects but the ratio is very less in numbers. > But my context was to implement this in schools, colleges and universities > so that they can

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Sahil ModGill
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Prakash Prasad wrote: > Well I do not agree with your view point. Firstly nothing is extreme right > or extreme wrong and finding a win-win situation is always not possible. > I know, winning every game is not possible but to make up your mind to play the game is t

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Prakash Prasad
create a blog, you will find interested people reading it - yes that should content simple and in-depth ? Regards, Prakash From: Sahil ModGill To: ILUG-C Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2013 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Sahil ModGill
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Prakash Prasad wrote: > That's a very big positive mindset and all country men want this to be > implemented? > Yes, only few want to implement this. > > If I could do such development work in school / colleges I would be > destined to have a much better future he

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
> > So who will change the system - ME. People should come out and put forward > their vision. > > Everyone here should take up responsibility to go to schools & colleges > and regularly conduct classes. > I completely agree with the above statements, and that is the only way to bring the F/OSS c

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Prakash Prasad
chools & colleges and  regularly conduct classes. Regards, Prakash From: Sahil ModGill To: ILUG-C Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2013 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux On Wed, O

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Sahil ModGill
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to request you to explain a bit more about what you mean > by "FOSS strategy". What is your expectation from such a strategy and > its implementation? > Sir, by FOSS strategy I mean

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
> > There are such show cases in India as well but not publicized other > folks could add their own here. > e.g. LIC, Mahararashtra State Transport Corp. > > TANGEDCO (Tamilnadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited) has been using customized version of GNU/Linux in 3000+ collection centr

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Sahil ModGill wrote: > But I have not seen any educational institute or any University in Northern > India which is following FOSS strategy and implementing FOSS in their > enterprise. I would like to request you to explain a bit more about what you mean by "FOSS s

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Sahil ModGill
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > There are such show cases in India as well but not publicized other > folks could add their own here. > e.g. LIC, Mahararashtra State Transport Corp. > Supreme Court and District courts are also using Ubuntu and Libre Office. But I have not se

Re: [Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Sahil ModGill wrote: > *Long Live F/OSS and Linux* > > http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/gendarmerie_linux/ > Nice show case for Libre software. Here is another one -- City of Munich, Germany

[Ilugc] [[ Good Read ]] French National Police Switch 37, 000 Desktop PCs to Linux

2013-10-01 Thread Sahil ModGill
*Long Live F/OSS and Linux* http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/gendarmerie_linux/ -- *Regards, Sahil ModGill* ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-g