--- Ramanraj K ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in wrote:
Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
The only handicap was the lack of hardware for demos at their office
premises, which they were very
generous to loan out to us without any charge for
our meetings held over
the past two to three years.
Recently, the Hindu reported that the Dept. of Atomic Energy made a grant of Rs. 3.5 crores to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, out of which the Linux cluster that clocked 1.382 teraflops was realised at the cost of only about Rs. 2.5 crores - a fraction of what supercomputers of this pedigree would cost - `saving' about Rs. 1 Crore. Would it be possible to convince DAE or the others involved in the project to share the remaining Rs. 1 Crore with FSF-India, to provide adequate resources for purchasing hardware, mirroring FSD from India, and support the various activities of FSF-India?
yes,it would be a good idea.But irony of the whole issue is FSF-India doesn't even remotely come into the picture(from govt's point of view) when we talk about IT. We have a new govt and a new ministry, why don't we lobby the new govt before they form a new IT policy.
TIA
--arky
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