Public Software Bulletin, December 2011


 

Prof. Parasuraman, Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

"Knowledge cannot be commercialised in a way  that existing frameworks have commercialised it. It has been perpetuated in a way that we pay some people for knowledge that has been created collectively. I think that is unacceptable"

With Public Software..."...downtime has declined.. loss of files has reduced.. and all that money we spent on buying anti virus software.. you dont need to buy.. we dont need to pay for licenses"

Bihar State Educational Infrastructure Development Corporation - Request for proposals on ICT@School - December 2011

Government of Bihar is planning to introduce Computer based learning in 1000 Secondary & Senior Secondary Schools of the state. The Computer Assisted Learning Model uses a Network of computers in each school with GUI Operating System, Office Suite and Application Softwares.

"Take back your website" -Drupal Course from the Public Software Centre, IT for Change

“Take back your website” -Drupal Course from the Public Software Centre, IT for Change
(December 2011, Bengaluru)

Download the Course details and the Press release here.
 

Spoken tutorials

Spoken Tutorials here

Badiger B M, Programme officer, DPI Dharwad

"I very much appreciate the 'sincere effort' of you and your team in installing UBUNTU in 20 computers which has helped us to a great extent to develop ourselves in building confidence in the digital world. The workshop is of great success as all our lecturers are coming forward to use computers for their requirements. I personally think it is a very good beginning. "  Badiger BM, in an email response to an ICT capacity building worksop conducted by IT for Change at Dharwad DIET (District institute of education and training).

Badiger B M, Programme officer, DPI Dharwad

"I very much appreciate the 'sincere effort' of you and your team in installing UBUNTU in 20 computers which has helped us to a great extent to develop ourselves in building confidence in the digital world. The workshop is of great success as all our lecturers are coming forward to use computers for their requirements. I personally think it is a very good beginning. "  Badiger BM, in an email response to an ICT capacity building worksop conducted by IT for Change at Dharwad DIET (District institute of education and training).

Gurumurthy Kasinathan's article about FOSS for SMEs in 'The Hindu'

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2581632.ece

FOSS can greatly benefit digital SMEs

The State Government is formulating a policy for animation, visual-effects and gaming to help Karnataka become the hub for animation industry in India.

Public Software Bulletin, October 2011

Sudhakar Bhandari, American India Foundation

Post the Mysore Subject Teacher Forum workshop in the month of July'11, I am regular user of Ubuntu. I was a regular user of proprietary software from 1996, but compared to proprietary software, Ubuntu is very handy and useful to us. The reasons are below

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