SRI and FOSS in Ecuador

Posted Dec 9, 2008 7:25 UTC (Tue) by mfioretti (guest, #55161)
In reply to: A look at free software in Ecuador by yodermk
Parent article: A look at free software in Ecuador

yodermk,

during my talks with people in the subsecretariat nobody mentioned the SRI, though it may be one of those 45 central institutions which will share one FOSS-based document server, so my impression is that they have other priorities now.

This said, I was helped by attending a week-long event focused on FOSS, but I can confirm that I saw a lot of interest in FOSS at all levels (activists, educational institutions, government representatives) *beyond* the congress, so I fully agree that there are lots of good things ahead.

Thanks for your comment,

Marco

SRI and FOSS in Ecuador

Posted Dec 9, 2008 8:53 UTC (Tue) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

Speaking of education, I have a friend who was at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. There, Macs were/are really big ... what most people (at least in the arts) use. At least it's not Windows. I wonder if students there are starting to get the "Linux bug".

Can't wait for my next trip to Ecuador, though it is not planned at the moment. :(

SRI and FOSS in Ecuador

Posted Dec 9, 2008 14:42 UTC (Tue) by rafael-ec (guest, #55498) [Link]

Actually you still have to use a windows client to report taxes here in Ecuador. Any way i know people from SRI who wants to migrate the system to java so it would be multiplataform and hopefully make it free.

The good thing about the way you report taxes is that there is an open format made with xml so in theory anyone could make and application for this and make it free software. This hasn't happend yet.

Anyway there are a lot of things goin on in Ecuador in favor of free software and that is thanks to free software activists in our community.

Best Regards,

Rafael Bonifaz