[PLUG] New Indian ubuntu mirror

[Arun Khan]

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:20 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
>
> There were high hopes from Reliance DC but they are firmly in Apple's
> pockets, so don't think it will happen anytime soonish (unless the
> govt. steps up its efforts to have foss in its projects and puts some
> kind of notification to have availability of community distros. on
> various DC's in India)
>

Rather than relying on commercial interests like Hathway and Reliance,
the government, if they are serious about FOSS adoption, should
empower (fund) NIC and the educational institutions to host FOSS
repos.  To the best of my understanding, repos at the IITs exist
because of dedicated FOSS  individuals within those orgs. and not
because of some policy.  Take the case of NRCFOSS - way back in
2005-2009 time frame it was active, promoting FOSS at various regional
colleges but now it has gone into oblivion perhaps due to lack of
funds.  Crowd funding is an option but I'm not hopeful that it can
generate viable funds.

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Arun Khan