Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

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#21

"Jim Seymour":

Nobody ever does that with commercial software,

Vendors of commercial software control their partners.

If there was nothing fishy we would have detailed reports, case studies and, which is more important, a comparison of costs of the chosen solution and competitors ones. Here? Totally opaque embezzling.

#22

Hi :slight_smile:
This is all pretty fantastic! Congrats to anyone involved.

Please can we just drop all the threads that have an Urmas in them? Just
ignore the obvious FUD and avoid engaging.

If doing a migration with any kind of assessment of hardware requirements
or with any advice from almost anyone familiar with OpenSource then it's
highly likely that little or no new hardware needs to be bought except
where hand-helds are seen as more useful than a desktop.

Without guidance people might have ended up buying new kit but will soon
find that new kit lasts "forever". Staying with proprietary systems means
fairly frequent hardware upgrades just in order to keep doing the same
stuff. If people have upgraded to new hardware they will also begin to
realise they can bring the old stuff back into use, or give to worthy
causes such as those with charitable aims.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#23

You can also make use of Pictures of Kerala Legislature complex
from this wikimedia commons category
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Niyamasabha_Mandiram

Thanks, but finally I've already posted your picture at [1] and is
used at [2]. I shouldn't have done this in practice, but as soon you
got the authorization, could you confirm the license I specified is
correct?

What is great is that the wiki used by the Document Foundation is
using the InstantCommons Wiki feature, so that I don't need to
reupload images from Wikipedia Commons and I can use them directly.

[1]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LOWN_3_Kerala_Legislative_Assembly_migares_to_Free_Software.png
[2]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LOWN/3#Yet_another_migration_to_LibreOffice

The best reports so far are
http://www.medianama.com/2014/07/223-kerala-legislature-foss/ and
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/kerala-legislature-announces-smooth-transition-to-free-software/article6224551.ece

Also Zyxware Blog post
http://www.zyxware.com/articles/4358/zyxware-helps-kerala-state-legislative-assembly-move-to-free-software

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William Gathoye
<william@gathoye.be>

#24

Great news! Congrats to everyone that worked to make this happen.
I shared this with the minister of innovation of Albania as a case study
worth checking out (at least).

Best,

#25

Hi :slight_smile:
The Users Support mailing list had this post sometime yesterday from Tim
Lloyd;
"
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs
the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues
"

Later in the thread Jim Seymour said

"
Two governments in less than a week's time. Very good news! :slight_smile:
Regards,
Jim
"

William that looks like a good way of handling it. For online stuff it's
quite easy to adapt or change if someone does object and in this case it's
difficult to imagine they would object anyway. Printed Documentation that
gets widely distributed might need to be a bit more careful when uncertain
but that is a "different bottle of crisps altogether".

Thanks Tim, Jim and William!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: