On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > Sandip Saini of NRC-FOSS is doing his PhD in a study of foss > methodologies. As part of his work, he is trying to compile a set of > FOSS success stories. Definition: > > <quote> > Documenting the success stories of FOSS implementation in India-- > Nature, Scope and Methodology of the study. > > The goal of the study is to bring out into public a reliable and > independent compilation of some instances where FOSS implementation has > been carried out successfully in India. > A 'success' in this context is defined as one where there has > been an acceptance of at least one FOSS technology or solution > across at least one unit of organisation – a department, a > project, an enterprise or an institution – either public or > private, either IT or non-IT. In other words, an individual who > uses only FOSS for his/her needs would not qualify for being > considered a success in this context; it has to be an > organisational entity/unit. The best case would be where an > entire large enterprise (a government department say like Indian > Railways, a private corporation like an IT major or an > Automobile manufacturing company, etc) has completely switched > over to FOSS for all its IT and Computing needs, and the least > acceptable instance would that of a small unit of an enterprise > (one department of a University, one section of a company or > government organisation,etc) that have started using mainly > FOSS for at least one significant part of its operations. All > instances between these two limiting cases would of course be > acceptable too. > </quote> > > We would be happy if members of these lists could suggest places he > could investigate. You may contact him at: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > also feel free to post such things in this list.
Please check out this: http://www.nehsindia.org/beyondbooks/computer/computer.php3 This is a known success story from a non-urban area like Pachgani(near Mahabaleshwar). We had asked them so many times to write about it. I think they are very shy and do not want to promote their activity. Regards -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~~ www.sudhanwa.com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
