Some reasons for me to be so excited about this project:
1. Most decision makers in govt. and edu institutions are typically brain-washed to believe that open source solutions cannot be maintained etc.
Now, if we could set an example and implement a working solution and develop a community of users in one of these institutions, then the rest will follow.
2. Students in most schools have been exposed to the Microsoft development environment and hence their typical response to open source is... 'its too cryptic'. Sadly, they fail to realize that free/open source software really helps them learn by example. Now, if I could just show them the beauty of free software model, we would have a whole new generation of programmers working on free software. Catch them young is the idea.
cherio
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