Hi all, In Bangladesh Open Source Network <http://www.bdosn.org>, we have a service to help other entities to migrate to open source. Right now we have two ongoing projects - one with D.net (a non-profit) and the other is Bangladesh Telecenter network. In every case, we try to categorize the softwares first in the following criteria - 1. Business critical/ Mission critical softwares, 2. Regular business process, 3. Ad-hoc softwares, 4. Miscellaneous. Different departments of the same entity may have different softwares in the same categories. Then we identify the group in the entity which should be the most tech-savvy. We start with them. We then provide localized version of manuals and training materials. Asynchronous workshops are also arranged. We also try to find out device drivers for Linux distributions. Although there are lots of challenges these efforts are worthy. Thanks, Shehab On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Leo Arias F. <elopio@softwarelibrecr.org> wrote:
Hola Jorge,
Last year I talked to Anderson Fernandes de Alencar, from the Paulo Freire Institute. He did an interesting work relating the migration to free software and Paulo Freire's ideas, and he worked on the migration of the institute. You can found the document at [1]. He's brazilian so the text it's in portuguese, but if you speak spanish you can understand almost everything with some help of a translation tool. You might want to talk to him, he speaks a kind of portuñol so there will be no problem. The problem is that I can't find his email, I'll continue searching.
pura vida
[1] http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/campus/freire/26Fernan.pdf -- Leo Arias ¡el futuro es libre! http://www.softwarelibrecr.org
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