Hi Parin Sharma,
2010/7/9 Parin Sharma <[email protected]>: > Recently on 30th June 2010, I got an opportunity to give back something to > my school, my Alma mate with FOSS !! Below is a small story how things > started and went.... > > I had this thing in my mind for quite some time, schools are the places > where we are taught basic morals, etiquette, sharing things, knowledge and > other good things but unfortunately most of the Schools in India teach > Proprietary software like MS Windows, Office and other Adobe stuff like > Flash etc. so was the case with my school, DAV CPS[1], Paschim Enclave, New > Delhi. So I talked to Anand Wardhan sir, one of the best teachers, I have > met in my life!! Although, he is an Economics teacher but still he > understood my point when I told him about FOSS Stuff and he immediately > agreed for a workshop in School. So it was 30th June, the day I was eagerly > waiting for but was a bit nervous too because it was for teachers!! OMG, now > I had to present something to teachers to who taught me some years back but > I knew it will be good!! So it was 11:45, and I started, first telling about > FOSS history and then its advantages, then SchoolOS[2] but since I had just > 1hr or so, I had to quickly jump to the Demo Educational FOSS....I started > with Maths S/w like Kig then showed Chemistry tools and I tried to show > almost every subject related FOSS but as always I fell short of time and had > to wind up my presentation showing FET and Dia Diagram Editor, but as a > start, it was enough, the teachers were all smiling, blessing me!! It was a > wonderful experience.... many teacher in particular my chem teacher asked me > to install BKChem and other chem S/w asap because she found them really > helpful! Overall it was awesome but this is not it, I want things to get > implemented asap, want students and teachers to use FOSS!! Looking forward > to it...All I wanna tell everyone reading this, seriously its a beautiful > experience doing something for your school, your people!! Try it this summer > go back to your previous schools and tell them about Freedom that you get > when you use FOSS, so that the next gen coming can live in a pure Free > World! > > [1] My School's Website - http://davschoolpemn.org > > [2] SchoolOS - http://schoolos.org > > > > You can also view/download my presentation from: > http://www.slideshare.net/parinsharma/fos-sintro-presdav > > Original Post at http://bit.ly/ble0wH > Really Great Work ! > -- > Parin Sharma > http://twitter.com/FOSSmaniac > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > -- > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Regards, Arulalan.T Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks ! http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Experiments In Linux are here http://tuxcoder.wordpress.com -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
