---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Linus in schools collaboration Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:49:15 +0000 From: "Daryl Martyris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Prateek, I am involved with the GSCP on the management side. Our Linux Guru Tom has already been in touch with your list sharing info on our Linux distribution, but I wanted to ask if we could collaborate more closely on identifying Linux educational software titles. I understand Leo is working on that in Delhi. Could he share his findings? As Tom has said he is going teacher by teacher right for on basic Linux teaching, and I think that this is a good solution for now, since group sessions still leave something lacking in terms of teacher confidence, but I think his work could be enriched by our mapping the curriculum to the software and then demo-ing to teachers (both the computer and subject teacher). Could you ask Leo to get in touch with me and Tom on this please? Tom, This approach to integrating the curriculum and computers has already been developed by us in Goa with regard to software called worldwatcher. But since its windows based, we have to start all over again for Linux. Also we should focus on software that is available with both Windows and Linux since most schools have a mix. IS there any content on our Linux distribution you ant me to put on our website. We can't put the entire distribution up for download though. p.s. I hope you're putting in a plug for internet whenever you visit schools. Remember - if they put in the phone extention to the lab, we'll provide the modem free. cheers, Daryl _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -------------------------------------------------------
