Greetings,

On 6/29/10, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:

On Monday 28 June 2010 21:32:21 Murali M wrote:

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The billion dollar question among the computer users in India now!

• Has NRC-FOSS done its job in promoting FOSS in India since 2005 ???

• If not, do we need such anorganization anymore ???

• Will Government of India Listen to lay computer users of India ???

instead of looking at wikipedia, I suggest you look at the following sites: http://nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in http://nrcfosshelpline.in

I would say nrc-foss has done it's job - and a lot of it thanks to the active support and participation of members of the Chennai, Mumbai, Pune LUGs as well as very many FOSS enthusiasts from all over India.

I was wondering if a "NRCFOSS Partnered and Trusted" helpline wherein the "Trusted" implies "It is OK for alternate member round robin would take the current task at an agrred upon price (calculated based on agreed upon price per bench per duration) which is payable to the member who owns the process" plus whatever the service recipient would like to award the "Consortium" as a token of appreciation which will then be shared on the following basis: 1/2rd for the owner of the process, 1/3rd for the consortium, 1/6th for the mebers of consortium and 1/6th for further research and encouragement to the NextGen-<whatever> by sponsoring students education etc.

Above, of course, are my humble opinions.

Regards,

Rajagopal

PS: I am cc-ing to ilug-bom and centos so that the idea can be thrashed out and a viable support infrastructure can be achieved before next "couple of years".