2009/8/7 Srinivasan Sundararajan <[email protected]>: > hi all: > while there is considerable resistance from HoDs and other staff > members re FOSS projects, there have been a number of projects done in > the past three years. I have been requesting the students / staff to > give me brief details, but the response has been sparse and sporadic. I agree that the resistance from the faculty has always been their for anything new which also includes FOSS and FOSS electives. But how do we resolve this issue regarding foss projects ? *would a compulsory faculty training help solve this issue ? *How about going the top-down approach via a declaration from Anna University ? *Change in the project specification in the universities *Including a FOSS elective which involves just coding a project be it python,php ,ROR or even bash programming *Organising small workshops in colleges which involves hacking into FOSS code ( for students )
And many more. This actually is a serious and I also think we will be hearing more from the students as many people keep on hearing about linux,FOSS,ILUGC & NRCFOSS . Students will be asking more and more such queries. There needs to be a framework in place by either NRCFOSS or ILUGC or both which could address such issues . > i think it is very likely that most of these students (especially from > Anna Univ affiliated colleges) would be members of this list. if they > could gather info from them, we could use the info for furthering the > cause of FOSS projects in colleges. Yes . @ Students : Please give more information . only if you come forward and tell us than people here could help . Do feel free to discuss anything ( related to FOSS ) here . Also mention the difficulties you face we all would be more than glad to help . > > if possible, we could have a demo on select projects on the software > freedom day, may even give prizes for the top three or so ; more > importantly, announce that > "FOSS projects to be done during 2009-10 even sem will get support > from us ; ILUG-C in collaboration with NRCFOSS will evaluate the > projects ; selected ones will be put on demo (in may/june 2010?) and > prizes / certificates offered from nrcfoss. " Yes this is good PR . It will help drive some info on FOSS into the heads of CS department faculty who have been resisiting change. ( A prize/certificate really makes a difference in HOD minds .. ( personal experience :D ) ) > While ILUG-C could focus on TN colleges, other groups could get this > going in their respective states. The Swecha project from Free Software Foundation AP chapter has been encouraging and also organised a Industrial session /program/project called E-Swecha distro which is aimed& created for and by Engineering students . Their website [1] has some information . There is a forum[2] where many students discussed their issues with GNU/Linux etc . There is a wiki page [3] which discusses the packaging of the distro . 1 .http://eswecha.swecha.org/ 2 .http://eswecha.swecha.org/forums/ 3. http://eswecha.swecha.org/wiki/index.php?title=CSE/IT Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri www.pavithran.org _______________________________________________ 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
