Is anyone interested in a similar initiative in Kolkata ? In an earlier mail i did
talk about IT
enabling schools. But somehow the issue got buried.
regards
sankarshan
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From: Raju Mathur
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 01:05 PM
Subject: Meeting with CBSE Officials
>>>>> "Gami" == gami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gami> hello people, Ankit, Prateek and I had a meeting in DPS RK
Gami> Puram with a couple of CBSE officials regarding review of
Gami> the syllabus of IT Applications Vocational Course offered by
Gami> CBSE for classes 11th and 12th. This course is currently
Gami> being taught by some 30-35 schools from all over india, and
Gami> most of these are government model schools. Till now,
Gami> microsoft specific applications (like MS Office) were being
Gami> taught, but now with the revision, X Windows will be taught
Gami> for GUI (Basic things like desktop, panel etc) and Open
Gami> Office for office applications. All the things that the
Gami> students were supposed to learn using Microsoft products can
Gami> alternatively be learnt by using GNU/Linux systems. A
Gami> customised CD containing only the required packages is to be
Gami> developed to be sent to all schools teaching this course.
Totally awesome! As one would expect, the finger for the customised
CD is pointing towards me; I hope to have it ready this coming week,
given all the software we need to put on it and a little bit of help
from my friends (you know who you are :-)
Gami> This can be seen as a very positive sign, and in fact we
Gami> have another meeting with the CBSE official to discuss the
Gami> current CBSE Syllabus for other classes. For the same, we
Gami> need to be ready with a presentation and a manual of the
Gami> Linux system (Very Very basic stuff and some details about
Gami> the open office, on how to use it etc.) Since work had
Gami> already been started for Leap (till we dont reach a
Gami> consensus, im going to refer to the schools project as leap)
Gami> we could probably use that for this purpose.
LEAP sounds good. I doubt if we would get a better acronym than that
in a hurry.
Please outline the requirements from the basic manual. Wouldn't we be
able to get and massage something from the 'net instead of writing one
from scratch?
Gami> in fact, when we hinted to the CBSE official about
Gami> linux-delhi's project, he was more than willing to help us
Gami> with it. he is very pro linux and would definitely help us
Gami> if we have our kit ready.
We really need to get responsibilities and deadlines in place.
Prateek, how about the minutes?
Gami> if anyone is interested in writing for the manual, please
Gami> get in touch with the person who's heading the section
Gami> you're interested in. the list was sent by supreet a couple
Gami> of days back on linux-delhi. please goto the archives in
Gami> case u dont have the mail.
You'll have to look in the Linux-Delhi archives, since that message
went to ilugd and not the school list. I've sent a copy to this list
too now.
Gami> Regards, Gami
Regards,
-- Raju
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