Milind, this is excellent work. You might also want to use the research done by Prof. Rahul De of IIM Bangalore on the economic impact of FOSS. His 2009 study which said that India can save $2 billion if it switches to FOSS is at:
http://www.iimb.ernet.in/~rahulde/RD_FOSSRep2009.pdf
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:35 PM Milind Oka oak445@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Rushabh and Dsouza for your kind and encouraging words.
I think every Indian can participate in this activity. The least thing that everyone can do is to make awareness of foss and boss. Write some articles, blogs, emails and send to your freinds. Let them know boss and foss
You know it is Indianized version of linux and also not perfect. It may be inferior to many other linux flavors. But most of the Indians who are only using computers for their basic needs, it is more than sufficient. So you can safely recommend them. They really enjoy the logo bharat on desktop.
Making it perfect is not a difficult task at all. But we know government will not do it unless we pressurize them.
Here is a brief description of my humble efforts, apart from PIL. You are always welcome to share your knowledge and efforts with us.
Bharat Operating System Solutions
How can you help us ?
The moment we started promotion of boss, India's own operating system, people have kindly started offering their help to our informal group. Most of them asked one question again and again.
Can I help this activity if I have little or no knowledge of computers ?
We are very happy to welcome you since we really require help from every citizen of India. BOSS is ....of the people by the people and for the people of India.
There are so many areas where you can help us. We require teachers, orators, writers, lawyers, team leaders, artists etc. If you think you do not have any such skill then you are probably wrong. Just join our group and you will soon learn one such skill.
Group : Bharat Oerating System
Step 1 : How to join ?
The first step required is to install Telegram on your smart phone. Telegram is an application similar to Whats App. We prefer Telegram because it is open source and not commercial product like whats app or hike.
If you don't have smart phone, no problem, you can still install and use telegram through your laptop and desktop or both ! But you require mobile number to register.
If you have difficulty in installing telegram, contact any of our members or local guru who will teach you complete the first step. It is very easy to install telegram.
Step 2 : What Next ?
Read discussion on the group. You will find all sort of people in the discussion. Goal is one - To help people in removing Microsoft, Install BOSS and use BOSS in everyday life. You can share your ideas here on the group on how to achieve this goal. You may find lot of technical discussion. You may ask questions or put your opinion.
Please stay with us for some time and you will eventually be familiar with this activity and start enjoying it.
If you can contact 10 to 12 group members in your area, then form similar group starting your activities independently for example - BOSS-Banglore,BOSS-Pune etc. After that all of your members need not stay on this group. Only one will be here to keep in touch. Others will quit voluntarily in order to make place for new members.
Step 3 : Covering the whole Country
If you are a beginner, you will be surprised to know that all boss supporters of our country of 135 crores can stay connected simultaneously with application like whats app. This is called as Internet Relay Chat (IRC). You will learn how to use IRC along with telegram. You can learn or teach others remotely using IRC.
Our country has made a separate channel for BOSS users on IRC server 'freenode'. Channel is named as #boss-nrcfoss. Once you master Telegram and IRC you can start your own journey with your own plans to spread boss and help in the digital progress of our contry.
This activity will implement BOSS throughout the country achieving digital literacy, eradicating digital slavery imposed by 'Microsoft'. Thus making our country truly independent.
From software experts, we expect various free and open source software applications that we need in everyday life and can be run on linux systems, preferably on BOSS.
To start with, we in SIWS college,Mumbai, have developed a free and open source Result software for schools and colleges which runs on BOSS. The individual mark lists can be prepared on smart phones and transferred to result committee via email.
We give free assistance to schools and colleges with the condition that they have to install BOSS on at least two machines and prepare result on it and also they should give free assistance to nearby schools and colleges in implementing this software.
The idea has been instantly accepted by teachers and students of our college and by KC college students and teachers. Both are working together now on Bharat group. Many more colleges and schools have started showing interest.
To join let me know your telegram number. I will add you to 'Bharat Operating System'.
My no. is 8652305696
Beginners and Experts all are welcome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.refort.MarkList&hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhJJ0-xbbbE
Thank you
Milind
On 12/26/15 22:24, Rushabh Mehta wrote:
Great work Milind. If GoM is spending 2.5cr just in Mantralaya, then we
can imagine how much it would be for all departments, corporations, PSUs owned by GoM. If we calculate all