[ilugd] How to promote FOSS -- Lessons from Government of India

2008-03-20 Thread Raj Mathur
Our venerable Government has appointed agencies for the specific purpose of promoting Free and Open Source Software in India. Here are some lessons I learnt from my experiences in dealing with one of them. To promote FOSS: - Once you get an application to rent a server for one of the (if not

Re: [ilugd] How to promote FOSS -- Lessons from Government of India

2008-03-20 Thread G Karunakar
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our venerable Government has appointed agencies for the specific purpose of promoting Free and Open Source Software in India. Here are some lessons I learnt from my experiences in dealing with one of them. snip In the

Re: [ilugd] How to promote FOSS -- Lessons from Government of India

2008-03-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 20-Mar-08, at 5:26 PM, G Karunakar wrote: for now I am more worried about indlinux.org - which happens to be on same server! for which NRC-FOSS has already offered you free hosting on it's server. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] How to promote FOSS -- Lessons from Government of India

2008-03-20 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:26:47 +0530 G Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our venerable Government has appointed agencies for the specific purpose of promoting Free and Open Source Software in India. Here are some

Re: [ilugd] How to promote FOSS -- Lessons from Government of India

2008-03-20 Thread G Karunakar
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-Mar-08, at 5:26 PM, G Karunakar wrote: for now I am more worried about indlinux.org - which happens to be on same server! for which NRC-FOSS has already offered you free hosting on it's server. and so

Re: [ilugd] How to promote FOSS -- Lessons from Government of India

2008-03-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
G Karunakar wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-Mar-08, at 5:26 PM, G Karunakar wrote: for now I am more worried about indlinux.org - which happens to be on same server! for which NRC-FOSS has already offered you free hosting on

Re: [ilugd] How to promote FOSS -- Lessons from Government of India

2008-03-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 21-Mar-08, at 12:12 AM, G Karunakar wrote: and so have few other folks! Issue is not about getting free hosting, but rather if still keep using resources from multiple sources (eg for indlinux.org - DNS, mail, downloads, SVN, www - each is served by a different server! which somehow i