On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> we want to re-orient the syllabus - that is the goal of NRC-FOSS, and the > big stumbling block are the lecturers. Management want it, students want it, > but lecturers are blocking it. So we are trying to get a few lecturers > excited about foss - and very very few of these ever write code. Recently [last week] we conducted a TTP in Anna University, Trichy. The same thing happened here also. Very few only came out of all trichy surrounding areas. In other words, I can say, the no of speakers were more compare with participants. I would like to share an participant's feedback with all of you. "In our college we have an allowance scheme like if I will participate this type of workshop, then our college will give 500/- for me. I came just for getting my allowance". How is it. But at the same time some others were really interested in FOSS and Linux. Its happening in all the TTP. The staff's only argument is, "why we want to learn a topic from out of syllabus". Still FOSS is an elective paper. They will not take it as seriously until it will be one of the main subject in their curriculum. Otherwise FOSS will be just optional. So try to make it as a compulsory paper to the final year students. -- =============================== With Regards, Prakash.A.S, visit http://electronica.org.in is a Open source site for Embedded system learners. =============================== _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
