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Maluvia Haseltine

Freesmartphone.org - 0 views

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Linux SmartPhone OpenSource

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  • Maluvia Haseltine on 02 Aug 09
     
    Freesmartphone.org is a collaboration platform for open source and open discussion software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based SmartPhones. freesmartphone.org works on a service layer (middleware) that allows developers to concentrate on their application business logic rather than dealing with device specifics. freesmartphone.org honours and bases on specifications and software created by the freedesktop.org community
Marc Lijour

An anthropologist's view of an open source community | opensource.com - 3 views

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FLOSS t08 research master fedora community anthropology

shared by Marc Lijour on 02 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Diana noted that while 75% of the survey respondents in the study agreed that the contributors make up a community, she was more curious what the other 25% thought
  • "Setting up a login, setting up an SSL key, and contributing was a little daunting at first. That process could be simplified," said one interviewee.
  • High on the list of reasons were learning for the joy of learning and collaborating with interesting and smart people. Motivations for personal gain, like networking or career benefits, were low on the list.
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  • Mainly I contribute just to make it work for me.
Marc Lijour

The official web site of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala - 0 views

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india FLOSS migration adoption case_study t08 public administration

shared by Marc Lijour on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The Director of IT@School, K. Anvar Sadath said, "Building collaboration and sharing practices are essential factors for the well being of societies and proprietary software often deny that."
  • The Kerala IT Education Department believes that sharing is an important virtue. However, sharing a proprietary software would be a violation of the End User License Agreement (EULA).
  • Thinking about the massive cost involved in setting up the IT infrastructure based on Windows, it was better to have the OS and applications realigned for Linux and other free software.
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  • Enabling Linux and FOSS based education in 2,738 high schools brought along its own set of challenges. In the first phase, over 40,000 teachers had to be trained for over 90 hours on Linux based systems.
  • Creating a single curriculum based on GNU/Linux was another issue to counter because there were many distributions of the OS
  • the Free Software Foundation of India suggested developing a custom distribution for IT@School and eventually created the distribution with funding from the Kerala State IT Mission
  • IT@School has managed to get concession on broadband rate for all schools
  • Resources which are available under GPL and Creative Commons can straight away be customised to their requirements. This builds innovation and networking without much financial burden
  • wants Kerala to become a FOSS destination. With 90% literacy rate
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