Re: Open Source Software in Mauritius

From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 18:56:49 +0000

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
> Hello SM,
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:49 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I understand that this mailing list is not about Open Source Software.
>> The following three persons are on the ICT Advisory Council:
>>
>> Avinash Meetoo
>> Ish Sookun
>> Loganaden Velvindron
>>
>> The three persons are also Executives of the Linux User Group Meta. This
>> puts the Linux User Group Meta in an enviable position to promote Open
>> Source Software in Mauritius. According to Olivier Alais, there is a
>> National Open Source Policy, Strategy and Action Plan for Mauritius. I did
>> a search and I could not find any document about the Open Source Policy.
>>
>> What is the use of having three Executives on the Council?
>>
>
> Let us see from what you've written above. You mentioned "according to
> Olivier Alais..."
>
> You do realize that although there is a Linux User Group of Mauritius,
> although there is a BSD Developer who contributes code to several worldwide
> open source projects, although several Mauritians are employed by foreign
> companies to work on open source software, our Government still hired two
> "foreigners" to draft a policy for Mauritians.
>


Hi Ish,

I would like to point out that I'm also a Linux developer as I wrote
code in iptables, which is the firewalling tool for Linux systems :)
Received on Thu May 21 2015 - 18:57:03 PST

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