Abhishek Singh

The vibrant dynamics of open source poses a problem to universities to include open source into the undergraduate course. The ever changing nature of open source require constant up-gradation, and hence is the major distraction of professors/tutors. Meanwhile, a general nature of human, to oppose change, also prevents the academics to go for it. Though there have been some progresses on this, mostly in developing countries where open source has been started to be believed as the only way to go. Even though it's a long way for open source to get included in the university.

It is a nice article that summarizes the benefits of using an open standard for document especially at the format level. With the advent of ODF, much of the woes are taken care of, and the successive progress of development and adoption of ODF at medium and large scale and hinted for a bright future. As on the onset of DFD 2010, it's another opportunity to embark on the implementation, as well as for advocacy. Me myself will be presenting upon it at the DFD in Nepal. We're working with the government upon implementation of open standards and inclusion of free software at large. I would love to see more articles on how to properly implement open standards/ODF with government level. Case studies are welcome.