On 6 Jan 2005, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Hi All,
Most of GNU work has been out of government or university funded institutions (and now industry funded). That funding is not available in India except in few pockets like IIT or NSCT. That is the major difference.
And I have not seen any contribution coming out of IITs, NCSTs etc. in Free/Open Source Software. :-(
Slowly the momentum is picking up at NCST(Now CDAC Mumbai). We have done Indix, and now on the verge of completion of a Localisation toolkit, which include a how to guide (I can say a book) and various open source tools needed for localising FOSS. This project is in colloboration with IOSN. And there might be many which I am not aware of.
Now you know, NCST, IIT and IBM came together to do start OSSRC. Work has just started.
Go through...
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/groups/research/oss/ and http://www.ncst.ernet.in/groups/research/oss/portal/index.shtml
And everyone knows that IITB is encouraging GNU/Linux usage. I heard that for KRESIT Mtech students, GNU/Linux is compulsory for the first sem.
I am sure that more people from NCST will start contributing to the community.
Thanks & Regards, -- Rajendra Prasad Murakonda, ETU division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstWhile NCST). Off Phone : 91 22 27565303 extn : 302 Mobile(WLL) : 0 93235 83185 rajncst@yahoo.co.in , rajendra.prasad@gmail.com