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Survey Questionaire

This questionaire is to get information on usage & development of FOSS in Education,Institutes and govt,businesses,organizations.

Questions to be properly formulated.

Education

Purpose: To get a rough idea of FOSS penetration into educational institutions in india

Definition: by FOSS, we mean using operating systems that are free and open source like linux and freebsd and using open source tools, office applications and languages

Details to take
Name and address of the institute

Email address of person reporting (to be kept private, but compulsory)

For each question we have 5 radio buttons to click:
none some(10% to 25%) many(25% to 75%) most(more than 75%) all(100%)

Suggested questions:

1. Does your institute use FOSS for infrastructure servers like mailservers, fileservers and webservers
2. How many departments in the institute use FOSS in their laboratories?
3. How many desktops use FOSS office applications for mail, web, wordprocessing, spreadsheets etc
4. How much is the use of FOSS programming tools?
5. Does your institute support/develop FOSS projects?
6. How many students have FOSS on their personal machines?
7. What is the level of FOSS awareness in the institute?
8. To what extent are students/staff forced to use Microsoft Products?
9. How many staff members encourage/advocate FOSS usage?
10. Any other comments or major FOSS related activities at ur institute?

Organizations

1. Name, Address, contact info

1. Organisations that use FOSS and develop and deploy only FOSS
2. Organisations that run on FOSS and deploy at least some products
3. Orgs that mainly or exclusively run on FOSS

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