Fwd: Migration to Ubuntu in Delhi

[Lynus Vaz]

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From: narendra sisodiya <narendra...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Subject: Migration to Ubuntu in Delhi
To: foss-jobs...@googlegroups.com



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From: Alok G. Singh <alephnull AT hcoop.net>
Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Subject: [ilugd] [Commercial] Migration to Ubuntu in Delhi



We have an office in Delhi that we'd like to move to Ubuntu in stages. 5
desktops in the first stage. It's a non-profit book publishing
trust[1] and there's no one who knows about Ubuntu.

We'd like to setup a local mirror (or caching proxy) and most
importantly have someone on hand to help with the initial teething
troubles. This is especially important as there are no geeks in the
office and telephone support doesn't work if the people aren't sure of
what they are doing.

As far as the scope of the migration goes, at this stage, it's just
getting people use Firefox instead of IE and Openoffice instead of MS
Office.

TIA.

Footnotes:
[1]  http://prathambooks.org/home.htm

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[Sanket Shah]

So this is a job opening or an info brochure... how do we go abt it??

2009/10/27 Lynus Vaz <lynu...@gmail.com>

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[Lynus Vaz]

I got just this much from a mailing list. Probably you could write to: 'Alok G. Singh <alephnull AT hcoop.net>', since it appeared to start from him. Quoting the original mail in the mail may also help him to remember.

[Frederick Noronha]

Hi guys, I know of Pratham Books (have been in incidental
correspondence with them) and think they do a great job.

Btw, I am also a small-time publisher based in Goa
[http://goa1556.goa-india.org] and so far have just five books to my
credit. Half-a-dozen more in the pipeline.

The reason for this bit of information: I use Ubuntu, and other forms
of GNU/Linux, and find it very suitalble for book-publishing. For the
following reasons:

* Lyx.org is superb book design software.
* Graphics are handled in GIMP, gqview
* See power of ImageMagick, command-line graphics tool
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-graf/
http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/113978
* Inkscape is well suited for more complex layouts.
* Emailing and browsing using Thunderbird, Firefox.
* Virus-free, haven't lost a byte of data for 6-8 years.
* No priorietorial software used for book design
* Exception being the covers, since my artist is non-GNU.

The biggest challenge with using GNU/Linux tool is getting the support
for it. It is still tough to find right skills/price. The best way out
(which I effectively used) is to create local skills (closeby to area
of operation) by encouraging some young computer enthusiast to read
mags and play with software. In a few months, the person could offer
you effective support.

Without support, GNU/Linux is hell. With support, heaven!

Go for it, you won't have any regrets. FN

2009/10/27 Lynus Vaz <lynu...@gmail.com>:

> I got just this much from a mailing list. Probably you could write to: 'Alok
> G. Singh <alephnull AT hcoop.net>', since it appeared to start from him.
> Quoting the original mail in the mail may also help him to remember.

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Books from Goa: http://tiny.cc/goabooks