There are things like dosbox that can run things like qbasic too... Those things can be leveraged to motivate people in FOSS too...
On 6/18/07, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey nepbabu, > ya we are aware that we didnot include foss Nepal's email id in our > presentation. But never the less, as for you other inquiries, the green > portion in the chart for OS included names like Turbo OS and some other > names that I dont remember till now, but I do remember there were some > students who had written DOS and MS-DOS as an OS which they use. And as far > as having any students in our mailing list who took part in the survey, I > dont think so there is anybody from the list. > Another that we did note through out our campaigning is that students are > interested in FOSS and if given a proper channel they are willing to > participate in promoting it. We here at IOE took an initiative for the > promotion of FOSS in schools lets hope that more such programs are conducted > in schools so that FOSS is introduced to all the students. > > And lastly thank you for appreciating our work. > > > On 6/17/07, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:04:44AM +0545, Shishir Jha wrote: > > > IOE FOSS Community under the guidance of ACEN (Association of Computer > > > > > Engineers Nepal) and NITC (National Information and Technology Center) > > > conducted a survey cum campaign to promote FOSS among the school > > students > > > this February and March . This here is an abstract of the abstract of > > the > > > report prepared by us. The link to the article is > > > http://foss-nepal.googlegroups.com/web/Foss_campaign_Report_ACEN_IOEFOSS.pdf > > > > > Please go through it and give us your feedback > > > > Very well prepared report. :) > > > > Kudos to everyone involved! > > > > So gaming is indeed very much played by lots of students hmmm.. > > Prasanna, get your toolkits ready and proceed with FOSS Lan Party > > because I am definitely sure this sort of event will not fail (meaning > > there won't be 4/5 people turning up with Windows XP/Vista etc to play > > the game) and it's only going to invigorate the enthusiasm about > > GNU/Linux. Hooora! :) > > > > The topics in slides are all nicely written down but one caught > > my eye was that there was no mention of [email protected] in > > slide 27. > > Lastly, the students overally seems very ambitious and optimistic about > > Foss (nice :) and also the important thing i noted was what OS do those > > students on page 26 (with green section on pie-chart) use ? If there are > > any students who were did attempt the questionnaire in this list, could > > you please > > tell me which one ? > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Shishir Jha > > EPC 1970,GPO 8975, > > KTM,NEPAL > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
