IndlawNews: Open Source centre to come up in Bengal
Submitted by BigBirdy on Sat, 2007-06-09 18:02. ::
"A regional centre for Open Source Software Development will be set up by the West Bengal government with an investment of Rs two crore."
"Speaking to UNI on the sidelines of a seminar on "Open Document Format(ODF) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)" organised by Confederation of Indian Industry, State IT Minister Debesh Das said,"We are interested to set up a regional centre for open source software development centre. A budgetary allocation of Rs 2 crore has been approved for this." The state government is trying to tie up with a university as its academic partner to take the project forward."