---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் <[email protected]> Date: 2010/11/8 Subject: [Ilugc] Meeting with Dr.Kannan Moudgalya To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> Cc: Kannan Moudgalya <[email protected]>
Dear Guyz, We had a meeting last evening with Dr.Kannan Moudgalya, Head CDEEP, IIT Mumbai, Steering committee member for National Mission For Education,Funded by Ministry of HRD, Govt of India.Dr.Kannan explained us about taking forward the Free and Open source software education by building self learning spoken wysiwyg(what you see is what you get ) tutorials. For making a 10 min spoken tutorial , Dr Kannan said, IIT Mumbai is ready to support Rs2500/- in case of a original content version and Rs 1500/- for a dubbed version. He shared us the steps involved in making a spoken tutorial. He further added that this assignment is open to all in building quality spoken tutorial and IIT Mumbai is ready to fund upto Rs50000.00/year for the college student who ensures the proportionate quantum of* quality delivery*. The candidate can be any one like student from engineering/Science college,job seekers, retired people, House wife who can passionately do this job. The content can be any good tutorial on free and open source softwares, and that the work can be started by shooting a mail to Dr.Kannan Moudgalya(who can be reached at [email protected]) with outline and detailed script. Even a novice can be a participant for building this tutorial and the technical write up will be supported by IIT-Mumbai, and he/she be financially benefited proportionately for his/her contribution. He also underlined that there are very limited tutorials in tamil, and inspired us that we can add many more which will later dubbed to other Indian languages.The original creator will be given credits of his/her work even when the same been dubbed into other indian languages. He said NME explore that the license for the work done by the creator will be released under something similar to that of CC-SA-NC . The meeting is attended by Mr.Raman Pandarinathan, Prof. Kumaran Jaya Engg College,Another faculty from JEC(I forgot his name), Mr.Dhilip, two other students from JEC and myself . You can visit http://spoken-tutorial.org for more information and write to Dr.Kannan for getting any clarifications on the same. regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
