The Indian State of Kerala is taking its open source initiative further. Red Hat is going to help them in training the technical staff in government organizations. This includes everything from teaching Linux to enable them to build their own open source solutions. [Continue]

The Tamil Nadu (a state in India) Government is almost ready to lock Microsoft out in favor of open source software. Earlier Microsoft had been ousted from the academias of Kerala state. Though it is only two states currently, this can build into a momentum in favor of open source. [Continue]