Making cybercafes free and open

What does Indonesia have with cybercafes being run on Free and Open Source Software? The link is strong, and these guys are doing some great work there. Maybe the loss is ours for not being able to understand the language they speak! Here's what happened when we encountered a pack of three CDs... and ran again back into an old story.

Our planet's largest archipelago Indonesia has an interesting link between Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and cybercafes. As part of their Indonesia, Go Open Source project, they have a three-CD pack which helps cybercafes to go free and open.

Haryanto Sahar who is chief of the information network infrastructure unit at the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology had this pack of software, that comes along with a ten-page booklet. It runs the cybercafe, offers a billing system, security, office tools, a broswer, email solutions and chat -- all in Indonesian!

You can also get via this link to the IGOS sekretariat. There's a mailing list here. And, for the wiki go here. Can you read Indonesian? Much seems to be happening at this blog. And months back when I met Adi Nugroho in Bangalore, this was the fascinating story he was talking about... again regarding the use of GNU/Linux in Indonesian cybercafes!