hi, Sandip Saini of NRC-FOSS is doing his PhD in a study of foss methodologies. As part of his work, he is trying to compile a set of FOSS success stories. Definition:

<quote> Documenting the success stories of FOSS implementation in India-- Nature, Scope and Methodology of the study.

The goal of the study is to bring out into public a reliable and independent compilation of some instances where FOSS implementation has been carried out successfully in India. A 'success' in this context is defined as one where there has been an acceptance of at least one FOSS technology or solution across at least one unit of organisation – a department, a project, an enterprise or an institution – either public or private, either IT or non-IT. In other words, an individual who uses only FOSS for his/her needs would not qualify for being considered a success in this context; it has to be an organisational entity/unit. The best case would be where an entire large enterprise (a government department say like Indian Railways, a private corporation like an IT major or an Automobile manufacturing company, etc) has completely switched over to FOSS for all its IT and Computing needs, and the least acceptable instance would that of a small unit of an enterprise (one department of a University, one section of a company or government organisation,etc) that have started using mainly FOSS for at least one significant part of its operations. All instances between these two limiting cases would of course be acceptable too. </quote>

We would be happy if members of these lists could suggest places he could investigate. You may contact him at: sksaini@au-kbc.org

also feel free to post such things in this list.