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  • July 2007 — Himalayan IT Project started in Sikkim http://www.himalayanit.org/ Ugyen Tsewang and friends have started a project to provide IT education and jobs to Tibetan and related communities in Sikkim, Darjeeling, and Kalimpong areas. In November 2007, an IT teaching team is going to Ravangla settlement and Gangtok in Sikkim, and Darjeeling in WB, to teach beginning and advanced web development and general computer use. The organisers will be looking for Tibetans who wish to join as teachers ... on a paid basis if they can get the funding!
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  • Fedora 7 Released http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/fedora7_ships_redhat/ 31 May 2007 "What Fedora 7 represents is the culmination of a couple years of work to really free Fedora in the sense that it can be completely independent and live on its own. The entire tool chain of Fedora is completely in the open now."
  • Mitchell Consulting http://mitchellconsulting.net/commonsense/?p=1180 "The CEOs say its because of a shortage of highly skilled workers in the U.S. and we must invest more in higher education. That claim is likely a smoke screen to divert attention from the real reason U.S. firms outsource as described in IEEE-USA Today's Engineer ... " with comments from Indian workers, refuting this idea.
  • India faces offshore IT skills crisis http://news.com.com/India+faces+offshore+IT+skills+ crisis+by+2010/2100-1011_3-5994812.html?tag=nefd.top " ... only 25 percent of technical graduates and 10 to 15 percent of general college graduates are suitable for employment in the offshore IT and BPO industries ... "
  • How Big a Threat Is Offshoring? http://www.todaysengineer.org/2004/Oct/offshoring.asp Good discussion of outsourcing/offshoring. "Many companies have learned that the surface attraction of offshoring is often not borne out by the bottom-line savings. Cultural differences come into play. In India, for example, workers will often do exactly what they are told to do without speaking up — even when they can see that another direction would produce better results. In addition, experience levels and infrastructure support are lower in other countries than for displaced U.S. workers, so overall, productivity is lower."

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