Objectives & Deliverables

Objectives of NRCFOSS Phase - II

• Undertake Research, education and development in the field of Open Source Software based tools, services and applications in India

• To contribute to Open Source Software and standardization activities globally by way of collaborating with different government sponsored OSS centres.

• Encourage use of open standards for document exchange and website in Government departments

• To provide consultancy and certification services to government, Industries and academic community

• Encourage use of GNU/Linux and other FOSS tools in Government departments along with skill development programmes

• Demonstrate interoperability among various FOSS tools and applications

• Implement e-Governance projects using FOSS and create demo cum operational test beds

• Implementation of FOSS in educational domain

• FOSS adoption impact analysis

• To organize study programmes, Lectures symposia, conferences exhibitions and similar promotional activities related to F/OSS development.

• Organising training/workshops for SMEs.

• Development and enhancement of NRCFOSS portal which will become a platform where multidisciplinary organizations involved in Open Source collaborate to benchmark open source developments, licenses & research activities, maintain repository of analysis reports of open source software in our Country and Asian economies and establish fora and e-workshops

• To continue Human Resource Development in FOSS in both the formal and non formal sectors.

• To enhance accessibility for FOSS desktops

• ICT&E courseware development and certification for widespread online learning

• Setting up Centres of excellence in mobile platforms using open source software

• Further additions and enhancements to BOSS Linux specific to education & scientific domain

 Deliverables of NRCFOSS Phase-II

• Development of SaaS stack delivery model which is the innovation used in different technology like Grid Computing / Cloud Computing

• Develop service oriented architecture for kernel services

• Integration and development of Common desktop development infrastructure

• To setup Centre of Excellence for Mobile Internet Devices based on BOSS GNU/Linux

• Development and enhancement of NRCFOSS portal which will become a platform where multidisciplinary organizations involved in Open Source collaborate to benchmark open source developments, licenses & research activities, maintain repository of analysis reports of open source software in our Country and Asian economies and establish fora and e-workshops

• Enhancing accessibility for FOSS desktops

• Setting up of GCC Resource Centre which leads to improving GCC and spreading the technical know-how of GCC particularly in India through converting a few interesting research break-throughs (eg. whole-program analysis, optimizer generation from specifications, better instruction selection) into practically useful technologies.

• FOSS HRD in the formal sector & Non-formal sectors which include