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Pakistan offers open source training toolkit
By Fouad Riaz Bajwa
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March 20, 2007 (7:00:00 AM)
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Pakistan is the third largest low-cost IT-enabled and offshore business processes outsourcing services provider in Asia after India and China. The country's Open Source Resource Center (OSRC), a project of Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology, has developed and released a FOSS resource kit entitled "OSS Training Toolkit," originally put together in order to facilitate OSRC's own training workshops in Pakistan. The toolkit contains step-by-step manuals in six modules covering various Free and Open Source Software applications. All the content is available in printed manual form and as OpenDocument (.odt), Portable Document Format (.pdf), and Microsoft Word (.doc) files for download.
The toolkit covers databases, application servers, desktop applications, office productivity suites, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) software, as well as open source desktop applications for both Linux and Microsoft Windows. Along with the manuals, the toolkit provides a set of CDs that includes two Linux distributions, Ubuntu Linux Desktop and Fedora Server, as well as the other applications.
The toolkit's curriculum has been planned and laid out in such a manner that anyone from a basic to novice user can learn and benefit from it. It has been released under open source licenses through the OSRC Web site so that individuals and organizations interested in migrating from proprietary to open source networks can freely download, distribute, use, and modify the toolkit and its related CDs.
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This article is shared by Fouad Riaz Bajwa under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.
The toolkit's curriculum has been planned and laid out in such a manner that anyone from a basic to novice user can learn and benefit from it. It has been released under open source licenses through the OSRC Web site so that individuals and organizations interested in migrating from proprietary to open source networks can freely download, distribute, use, and modify the toolkit and its related CDs.
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This article is shared by Fouad Riaz Bajwa under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.
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The download link in the article is very slow. I'm sure their bandwidth is being hammered right now. Does anyone know of a mirror location to download? Or a bittorrent feed?
Here is the bittorrent url
<a href="http://www.osrc.org.pk/downloads/oss_toolkit.zip.torrent" title="osrc.org.pk">http://www.osrc.org.pk/downloads/oss_toolkit.zip.<nobr>t<wbr></nobr> orrent</a osrc.org.pk>
<a href="http://www.osrc.org.pk/downloads/oss_toolkit.zip.torrent" title="osrc.org.pk">http://www.osrc.org.pk/downloads/oss_toolkit.zip.<nobr>t<wbr></nobr> orrent</a osrc.org.pk>
torrent even dont starts, no seed...
never created a torrent before - should work<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_toolkit.zip.zip.torrent.html" title="rapidshare.com">http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_too<nobr>l<wbr></nobr> kit.zip.zip.torrent.html</a rapidshare.com>
<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_toolkit.zip.zip.torrent.html" title="rapidshare.com">http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_too<nobr>l<wbr></nobr> kit.zip.zip.torrent.html</a rapidshare.com>
never created a torrent before - should work<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_toolkit.zip.zip.torrent.html" title="rapidshare.com">http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_too<nobr>l<wbr></nobr> kit.zip.zip.torrent.html</a rapidshare.com>
<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_toolkit.zip.zip.torrent.html" title="rapidshare.com">http://rapidshare.com/files/22346257/osrc_oss_too<nobr>l<wbr></nobr> kit.zip.zip.torrent.html</a rapidshare.com>
Cool.
I hope they know CC 2.5 is outdated, current is CC 3.0. Dual licensing it under the GNU GFDL might be a good idea too.
I hope they know CC 2.5 is outdated, current is CC 3.0. Dual licensing it under the GNU GFDL might be a good idea too.
Hi,
I am also leading the Creative Commons CC-PK activities in Pakistan. The government opted for the Open Content License, I am not sure why, however, the CC 3.0 porting activity worldwide are in progress from 2.5. So it will be sometime until we will see a wider use of CC-3.0, CC awareness is in progress here, I am really optimistic about its use.
I am also leading the Creative Commons CC-PK activities in Pakistan. The government opted for the Open Content License, I am not sure why, however, the CC 3.0 porting activity worldwide are in progress from 2.5. So it will be sometime until we will see a wider use of CC-3.0, CC awareness is in progress here, I am really optimistic about its use.
Just wanted to clarify that seven out of eight booklets of the toolkit have been released under open content license 1.0, where as one booklet (Step by step Fedora Installation Guide) is released under GNU-FDL. We are not using CC.
Actually the article published about this toolkit was released under creative commons license and not the toolkit itself.
Actually the article published about this toolkit was released under creative commons license and not the toolkit itself.
You can find hopefully a bit faster (although also limited bandmidth) mirror here: <a href="http://paq.osdn.org.ua/~mike/tmp/oss_toolkit.zip" title="osdn.org.ua">http://paq.osdn.org.ua/~mike/tmp/oss_toolkit.zip</a osdn.org.ua>
I've not yet got around to look inside, hopefully today a colleague who's after education topic here will do.
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Michael Shigorin
shigorin/gmail
I've not yet got around to look inside, hopefully today a colleague who's after education topic here will do.
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Michael Shigorin
shigorin/gmail
Third largest outsourcing hub??
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 21, 2007 06:35 PM#