Ministry of Comms & IT 's venture called NRCFOSS - National resource center for FOSS, hosted by CDAC and Anna Univ have developed a distro for the Govt. called BOSS (Bharitiya Open Source Solutions) . This is now getting acceptance across Govt. They not only have a dedicated team working & maintaining it but a nation wide support center plan which will be hosted across all CDAc offices and NIC offices in India. They are hiring support personnel for each office. This distro is Debian based/GNU, and has Open Office in local languages and other apps. They have done upstream contribution to Open Office.org and claim to have even contributed to Debian kernel. They are also migrating several e-gov apps to this platform. This initiative was encouraged by Rahul Gandhi.
Hope this info helps. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:37 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > > If I understood Ashok's question right, he is looking for Governments > > that have contributed back to Open Source, not just borrowed from it. > > Exactly...thats what i am looking for. > > > There may be a few examples, however I don't know of any significant > > effort in this direction. Perhaps it's because Governments in general > > are used to taking rather than giving. There really isn't a culture of > > feeling accountable for what's been taken, whether it's my taxes or > > Open Source software. > > > > I'd be interested in knowing why you are on this quest. > > > > The organization i work for is involved in providing a suite of open > source applications > for parliaments. At some point there is a requirement for the > government departments > to take ownership of these application, and customize it as they see, > and then make > avaliable such customizations for use by other parliaments. > I was hoping to find some similar examples, and use that as part of an > educational case > study for the parliaments. > > -- Valsa Life is unsure ; Always eat your desert first :-)
