Subir Pradhanang wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:16 AM, nepbabu.cx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> What is a "positive" Bibek? Is it positive confirmation? Or a head nod? Or >>> just a "Bhaihalchani" kinda remark or a real letter saying that they fully >>> support the curriculum change? And what will change? Is it computer science >>> courses taught using OSS tools or just general computer courses? >>> >>> Need to be a little more specific I guess :). Thanks dude. > > Recently, I had a chance to attend an interaction program organized by > MPP regarding changing course curriculum in schools. MPP had > circulated the minutes of the meeting and I had briefed about it in > one of our meetings before Dashain. But I'm not sure if it has already > been blogged/wiki'ed though!
Dai, why not? After all that is exactly what a blog and wikis are for :) > Just to clear things up, there has not been any headway regarding > changing the curriculum. The process of communicating with the > concerned stakeholders has just been initiated, not much than that. > The real work has to be started now, practically after Tihar. The Hmm.. I see. > school curriculum changes every 10 year according to the CDC > (Curriculum Development Center) guys who attended the meeting. They > have suggested us to give the changes required in the curriculum in > written form, after which only they can act. The process is quite a > long one involving 7 or 8 steps going through different committees and > all as nepbabu said in one of the earlier mails. They've even invited > us to CDC for a presentation on FOSS. As per my chats with Bibek, > Dadhiram and others, let's plan to do the presentation right after > Tihar. That's the update from my side. We are thinking of creating a > curriculum group in this matter involving whoever is interested from > the community soon. > > And one more thing, MPP is taking lead in it by creating a pressure > group comprising of FOSS Nepal, ENRD, different schools, etc. I guess > they would soon form the group for the same. Will keep you posted. Subir dai :) I think it is important for everyone to keep posting their status updates :) I am very sure other FOSSians would love to read how the progress is going as well. > Sorry for not updating the list earlier as there had not been any real > headway into the matter and were thinking of taking some concrete > steps soon. > > And thanks for your suggestions, nepbabu as always :) No problemo dai. And thanks a lot! cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
