hi,<div><br></div><div>Just saw this update from Vivek Cherian, a former Mumbai community member who is now working in Chennai, on Facebook:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
Just back from a meeting with the IT Secretary Department of Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu. The happy news is that a FOSS OS will be used in the Laptops planned to be distributed by the Tamil Nadu Government to School students.</blockquote>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div>This is followed with the official notification sent to the press barely half an hour later - <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/education/issues/article2423376.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/education/issues/article2423376.ece</a><div>
<br></div><div>warm regards,</div><div>Pradeep Mohandas</div><div><br><div>-- <br>Pradeep Mohandas<br>How Pradeep uses email - <a href="http://goo.gl/6v1I9" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/6v1I9</a><br><br><br>
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