In fact, in light of this event, I think the time is right now ripe for this community to take the initiative and ask them to open up their previous works in localisation field. The IBM sponsored project will provide resources for the future. I am afraid that the past works might remain locked, and we need to ensure that it is publicly available.
One of the most important resources this centre should nurture is good resource perosns of free software community.
The leaders of this group are known to be free software enthusiasts. Therefore I do have hope that community can ask what we expect from a resource centre like that. Govt and TDIL are willing to consider transforming their software resources into free software. But, this task is very big, for we need to study them carefully. This must be done by a resource centre like this. If they plan to create only a lab which will be used by the students of CDAC and NCST and their work getting into public access, this process doesnt actually need any seperate centre.
In the recent past we managed to create several contacts. I really wish we have at least two very articulate full timers to take this responsibility of pursuing the relationships and managing. Eventually FSF India or another organization will be able to compensate such people. Please do a soul search. I want to suggest their names to the people who keep asking us for resource persons.
Nagarjuna