-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Jitendra, > Good to see everyone excited about starting a campaign at > school level. Just to inform, I want to say that IOE FOSS community > alongwith ACEN (Association of Computer Engineers in Nepal) has > already conducted such awareness programme in several schools in the > valley. I guess, it must have been just 2 weeks when we conducted > such programme in Brihaspati School, Naxal. It's good to know that IOE FOSS community is doing such activities. It's really appreciable. > But the problem i guess is the school syllabus itself, which > is Windows-based. The government is not going to change the syllabus > until we show them some successful model. > I think we need to design a syllabus based on FOSS which > should meet all the requirements of the present syllabus like > QBASIC, HTML, wordprocessing, spreadsheet, etc etc. We will have to > find some schools who can implement them.
Well, that's one glitch on our way (I think). The other requirements like HTML, wordprocessing, speradsheet can be met, but we may have some difficulty with the proprietary systems like QBasic (p.s: I don't know its alternative on FOSS till now). > We, at IOE, have started a wiki for that. But, because of the > ongoing exams haven't been able to do much on that. I can't remember > the link to the wiki right now. Will post it later. Hope everyone's > contribution will help leap a few steps further in this effort. > > -jitendra harlalka > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > FOSS Nepal mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > I think wiki will be quite helpful. Please continue on with this campaign. We'll sure contribute for it. Isn't that right Fossians? :) Regards, Abhishek Singh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGlO7zcZJO2bo/dhURAjO9AJ9oZzkPSCq9O+zRecTxdsfa8HbAzgCaAhEW LsgRAxbigU4dWWDsjhaWI3M= =YE9b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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