I would suggest having a 2-3 day event.The target audience would be Delhi's Students/Teachers/Anyone interested. Lets call it FOSS for School Education. Something on the scale of a trade fair. Approach a big-ticket school, MS,Barakhamba would be my choice.Or try the Delhi University. Prepare a proper Roadmap/Blueprint for the event first,setup a team and then approach the MS Principal or DU Vice-Chancellor. You have got to convince them.IMHO VC would be an easy bet than MS Principal. Then ask for a permission to host the event on their campus.MS has a large ground.In case,you can get to the VC, the DU grounds/auditoriums are plain awesome for this kind of effort.
Voila! you have got yourself the venue.Then you can plan various tracks for the events. Introducing them to IT for education first,then FOSS for education,then Linux ,various How-To's ,School OS,etc. ,(Please suggest more tracks). Have a fallback mechanism to check on students if they are following what was taught,eg. surprise check on them someday in their school. Have a small test and a suitable reward.I know this might not appear realistic at the first thought but read the Title of the thread, if you will. P.S. 1.This goes without saying that students would need freebies to keep them hooked. 2.In case you would like to have this Fast-Tracked,just contact Arvinder Singh Lovely,Education Minister for Delhi NCT. Please suggest/add/modify as you please. On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:51 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Narendra Sisodiya > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:40 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Narendra Sisodiya > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:14 PM, satyaakam goswami < > [email protected]> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Narendra Sisodiya > >> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I do not know how you will do this task but the following is the > >> >> >> task > >> >> >> we need to do it. > >> >> >> +++++++++++++ > >> >> >> There are 200+ college and 500+ Schools > >> >> >> So If we target 700 places then & If we want to do One > Introductory > >> >> >> One day Seminar in all these institutes by next one year then we > >> >> >> need > >> >> >> to do 2 workshop in per day. > >> >> > > >> >> > who set this target , whose target is it ? where are these numbers > >> >> > coming > >> >> > from ? > >> >> > >> >> It is just a estimation. G T gave these number. > >> >> > >> > ok now i get the picture clear , i though this was something a new !! > >> > >> Slightly new - G T is going in village and cities, and we can do > >> awareness in NCR. > >> > >> > > > > ok > > > >> > >> >> > >> >> >> This is very difficult and but not impossible. > >> >> >> How we can achieve this task. We can achieve this task by smart > work > >> >> >> and team work.. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >> > >> >> >> If we able to setup proper setup and conferencing to all these > >> >> >> institute then In one day we can achieve the task (excluding the > >> >> >> setup > >> >> >> time), we need to hire marketing guys who can think better then > us. > >> >> >> If we able to make 6 hour video (by team work and 1 week is good > >> >> >> enough to produce this 6 hour video) and then all we need to focus > >> >> >> on > >> >> >> How school college can show these 6 hour seminar ,, task can be > >> >> >> achieve in 1 month. > >> >> >> If we think for a documentary on all of us and specially GSoc > >> >> >> Student > >> >> >> then It will spread virally. > >> >> >> We have lots of resource like human labor, money, network, > contacts, > >> >> >> information, marketing guys, print media, electronic media, TV, > >> >> >> Radio.... > >> >> >> together we can pool all our energy to accomplish this task but I > >> >> >> believe that a 10 member team can also make this breakthrough in > >> >> >> just > >> >> >> one month with smart work. > >> >> > > >> >> > What is that different you want to do , that you are not doing > >> >> > presently > >> >> > ? > >> >> > >> >> All, I am saying, how can we address or make a awareness campaign to > >> >> all school and college of Delhi in a shorter duration. > >> >> G T is doing point to point advocacy. in 1 month he can do max 6-10 > >> >> schools. > >> >> I am asking for other model we can follow. > >> > > >> > What is that other model ? > >> > >> I already wrote - Having a dedicated team for 1 week who can prepare > >> video lecture on FOSS and all tool. Just for introduction. This can be > >> done in 3-4 hour video. Now we need to device a method by which this 4 > >> hour video should be played in all school and college of NCR. > >> This is one way... > > > > are you saying these videos are already there or need to be made? > > These are to be made. If we want to reach/teach at ground level then > we need to prepare material in Hindi. > > > > >> > >> Other I can think, we can have dedicated team for 1 week and we write > >> up a detailed BookLet , may be 4-5 pages in Hindi. More like a > >> awareness article. And we need to device a method that we can paste > >> this at very big scale... something like every corner. > > > >> We can even sit and produce a 400 pages book in hindi on FOSS which > >> cover most of the aspect like tools, howto etc with Linux DVD. and > >> somehow by magic it become popular like "Rapidex course of computer" > >> which is available in every corner of India. > >> > > > > talk to Ravi Ratlami like OLPC doc i just sent , he has written a doc for > > linux in hindi already i saw it with GT once . > > > >> > >> Other method like organizing workshop is very slow, we cannot make a > >> awareness in more then 10 places in a year, we are unable to do meetup > >> regularly, forget about dedicate workshop in college and schools. > > > > welcome to the real world :-) > > > >> > >> Or we can start a technology column in newspaper and put a daily dose > >> of FOSS via print media. > > > > this can work and will work provided you get someone from Media and again > > consistency is the key , who is going write and publish ? > > You are coming to "How Part" -- I am still on "What part" -- What is > the best suitable and advocacy method to reach/teach at mass level.. > We can think for "How" part - there must be some method to do so. > > G T also suggested me Centralized workshop for all > computer-teacher/principle (specially private schools). > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- ~GAURAV LUTHRA~ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
