-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Baskar Selvaraj <[email protected]> Reply-to: ILUG-C <[email protected]> To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Lab Setup in Lord Venkateshwaraa Engineering College, Kanchipuram Dt. Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:24:26 +0530
Dear all, Some stats about the FOSS lab setups we have done so far: 1. Starting from April 21 '2011 to July 22' 2011 we have setup FOSS labs in 82 engineering colleges (and about to reach 130+ before August) 2. About 10,000+ students getting benefited by this effort. (almost many students have done compilation of Linux kernel from source and have successfully booted from them) 3. Almost many engineering colleges have temporarily stopped their purchase of Proprietary software recommended by University and started evaluating FOSS alternatives. 4. From the next academic year, many engineering colleges would start teaching FOSS right from the first year (OpenOffice / GCC / Shell Programminig and no more Turbo C / M$ Office). 5. I can confidently say that the proprietary software domination in our engineering education is seeing its end (especially in Tamilnadu). Thanks for everyone who supported / supporting me all the time. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
