Dear All FOSSouls,
Greetings from IIT Bombay! It always feels great to connect to
FOSS enthusiasts like you all. We're working on a Project, viz, Spoken Tutorial
in IIT Bomaby, wherein we encourage people to learn and use FOSS. Our vision is
to make every Indian switch to Open Source Software. Our project is a part of
the National Mission on Education through ICT, funded by MHRD, Govt. Of India.
We're working towards our vision in the following way-
* Training college students and faculty on software that they can use in their
future professional life, for example, Scilab, Python, PHP & MySQL, LaTeX and
Linux. This training is also offered to corporate.
* Training Libre Office and Linux Ubuntu to staff members of schools, colleges,
Govt. offices and corporate
* Offering FDP on LaTeX to all faculty members, aiming at betterment of
academics in India
We have also worked on making Scilab a part of KIET Ghaziabad's
regular curriculum in Elect. Engg and CSE .We have also done many workshops in
all over India we have 2190 workshops over India.
To avail this training programmes all a learner need is a computer and a
basic mobile ear-phone. Learners need not leave their campus to avail the
training. We basically reach out to learners through networking. This network
is being spread out across the country by students and faculty who have
experienced the magic of learning FOSS using our magical AV Instructional
Methodology, viz, 'Spoken Tutorials'. These AV tools are sent by us in a CD
(can also be downloaded from http://spoken-tutorial.org). We also network by
participating in various conferences/ symposiums/ any national level meet.
Journals/ Publications are also good means of reaching out to public, for us.We
have already done more than 2000 workshops of the above mentioned FOSS in all
over India.
As we all share a common dream, i.e, to Fossize India, let's work together.
We'll be happy to receive contacts from you either to offer Software Training
Workshops or to participate in conferences or to publish articles.
Awaiting your reply..
Jai Hind!
Regards,
Vineeta Parmar
Research Asst
Spoken-tutorial Team,
IIT Bombay
09167050168
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