[Fsf-friends] Developments

[Satish Babu]

Two developments vis-a-vis Free Software in Kerala:

* TUG India and Technopark sign MoU on TeX training for employment 

Technopark, Trivandrum, and TUG India (the Indian TeX Users' Group) signed an
MoU on 7th Apri l2003 for a joint programme where the two organizations are to
conduct training on Text Processing using the popular Free Software, TeX. TeX,
written by Donald Knuth, a Stanford Professor, forms the core of a suite of
Free Software for high-end text processing and prepress work.

Further, after the training is completed, the trainees will be assisted in
constituting themselves into Virtual Micro-Enterprises (VMEs) for self
employment. Other kinds of support (incubation, small-scale venture capital)
will also be made available for these VMEs through Technopark's support
facilities. 

The MoU was signed between Rajiv Vasudevan (outgoing CEO, Technopark), NR
Mahalingam (CEO Designate, Technopark) and Satish Babu (Secretary, TUG India).

* Kerala PWD to go for Free Software platform

The Public Works Deparment of the GoK is to adopt GNU/Linux as its platform
for its enterprise portal. The portal, funded by the World Bank under the
Kerala State Tranportation Project, will use PHP and Oracle on GNU/Linux to
provide a variety of services for PWD's internal use. 



Satish Babu

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