Hi all,<br><br>In <a href="http://www.bdosn.org">Bangladesh Open Source Network</a>, 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. <br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>We also try to find out device drivers for Linux distributions.<br><br>Although there are lots of challenges these efforts are worthy.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Shehab<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Leo Arias F. &lt;<a href="mailto:elopio@softwarelibrecr.org">elopio@softwarelibrecr.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hola Jorge,<br>
<br>
Last year I talked to Anderson Fernandes de Alencar, from the Paulo<br>
Freire Institute. He did an interesting work relating the migration to<br>
free software and Paulo Freire&#39;s ideas, and he worked on the migration<br>
of the institute. You can found the document at [1]. He&#39;s brazilian so<br>
the text it&#39;s in portuguese, but if you speak spanish you can<br>
understand almost everything with some help of a translation tool.<br>
You might want to talk to him, he speaks a kind of portuñol so there<br>
will be no problem. The problem is that I can&#39;t find his email, I&#39;ll<br>
continue searching.<br>
<br>
pura vida<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/campus/freire/26Fernan.pdf" target="_blank">http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/campus/freire/26Fernan.pdf</a><br>
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Leo Arias<br>
¡el futuro es libre!<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>|=============|<br>Regards,<br>Abu Mohammad Omar Shehab Uddin Ayub<br>Software Engineer, Nilavo Technologies, Banani, Dhaka<br>Bangladesh Open Source Network, Dhaka<br>
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