Open Source centre to come up in Bengal

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.

Open Source centre to come up in Bengal.