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BJP using FOSS

by Arpit Kumar on 21 October 2008


BJP : The Bhartiya Janta Party, largest political party of India, is now the most high-tech political party in the country. The Party is using Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS) to computerised its offices across the country.

According to an article by Marco Fioretti on Linux.com, BJP says it plans to implement Wi-Fi connectivity in all its headquarters plus nationwide IP video telephony and unified messaging networks.
Prodyut Bora, national convenor of BJP information technology cell, says, “We have found that it is possible to create an entire enterprise IT ecosystem using only FOSS.”

Here the list of softwares used by BJP :

FunctionChosen software
Server VirtualizationOpenVZ and Vtonf
Router + Firewall + VPNVyatta
Unified Threat ManagementUntangle
HTTP AcceleratorVarnish
Proxy ServerSquid
Digital RepositoryePrints
EmailQmail, Courier Imap and Squirrelmail
Instant MessagingOpenFire plus Spark
Video and Voice TelephonyAsterisk, Hylafax
Mailing ListEzmlm
Security Camera ManagementZoneMinder
Identity ManagementFedora Directory Server
Web Content ManagementJoomla!
Remote WAN-based BackupVZDump and rSync
Storage Area NetworkOpenFiler
Network ManagementZenoss

The article has more information about the plan of BJP to implement the FOSS for party purpose. A Must Read! Thanks Marco Fioretti and Benjamin!

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  • Rishi said: on # 22 October 2008.

    Nice move by BJP. Their IT cell is working really hard to make changes obvious. “Netas” should try to learn about things to relieve them. Idea of promoting FOSS in India is good. Hope they don’t see vote bank in this also.BR/BR/Nice article. Thanks for share, buddy.

  • Rishi said: on # 22 October 2008.

    Nice move by BJP. Their IT cell is working really hard to make changes obvious. “Netas” should try to learn about things to relieve them. Idea of promoting FOSS in India is good. Hope they don’t see vote bank in this also.BR/BR/Nice article. Thanks for share, buddy.

  • Rohit said: on # 31 October 2008.

    Nice to hear that Indian Netaas will also be hi-tech now.BR/What more can i say buddy, nice share.

  • Rohit said: on # 31 October 2008.

    Nice to hear that Indian Netaas will also be hi-tech now.BR/What more can i say buddy, nice share.

  • Anonymous said: on # 7 November 2008.

    what are “indian Netaas”? Please let me know (M. Fioretti, author of the BJP article at Linux.com: you can contact me by email through digifreedom.net). Thanks

  • Anonymous said: on # 7 November 2008.

    what are “indian Netaas”? Please let me know (M. Fioretti, author of the BJP article at Linux.com: you can contact me by email through digifreedom.net). Thanks

  • ArpitNext said: on # 8 November 2008.

    “Netaas” (Hindi) means Leaders.BR/BR/@Fioretti : Thanks for your visit.

  • ArpitNext said: on # 8 November 2008.

    “Netaas” (Hindi) means Leaders.BR/BR/@Fioretti : Thanks for your visit.

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