+1 from my side i get into this situation often, not only with kids but my elder brothers as well, everybody is to much addicted to windows, we must start doing something with it.
On 7/9/07, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My brother is studying in class three. In home, i have installed GNU/Linux > for him to use and have fun. He is now comfortable with the desktop. > I was so touched last week. He came to me and said he need "paintbrush of > Windows" in Linux. I showed him its alternative but still could not convince > him Coz in school, he is made to do in windows. > > If this is the trend of teaching windows applications and window itself > from class 3 onwards. Until he is college student he will be too much into > windows. It will be nearly impossible to make them migrate to FOSS. > > I think we must start a campaign/organize a workshop focusing on primary > schools. Campaign will cost much of our time which we may not manage. But > One or two days of workshop for the school administrations and computer > teachers(at initial phase), to aware them of FOSS and Convience them to > implement it, would be great. > > shall we do it? > How can we do it? > what can we do? > Can we do it before SFD? > ................................................. > > > -- > Prabin Gautam "ओपन ठिटो" > Registered Linux User #443940 > letS makE ouR streeT FOSSible.......... > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
