On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:51:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Fafa, > I was just looking at the UNDP web site. Most of the things mention get > internet infrastructure out to the hinterlands. Nothing about what > software or hardware they intend to use. There are two ways to approach > problems: top-down and bottom-up. I think opensource is more bottom-up. > And there are already initiatives that are being taken regardless of the > UN. The main efforts are around getting FLOSS capable of being used in > every language. This is still not a finished project. UTF-8 and Gnome > are on their way! There are project like arabeyes.org that are working > on arabic. There is the govenment initiatve in Brazil (with help from > Debian). And of course, Ubuntu who I think is working of this in a major > way. > Cheers, > kev > --
Well, this is the first message in this thread that suggested to me that the phrase "OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS" might actually have a rational meaning! -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
