Dear Mr. Raman,
I can understand your position and I greatly
appreciate the efforts you have taken to spread the importance open source
software.There are few things which I want to discuss here.
Our academic system is too narrow minded making the students to learn the
subject only for scoring marks in the sem exams(even in higher education) and
not to learn by experience(taking up project, class discussion).Over the years
it has created an image among student community that doing projects is waste of
time..so they have lost interest in these kind of activities.Having said that I
know few people who come from different background like Biotech ,chemical they
are greatly interested in programming(linux.etc) again under parental pressure
they were forced to take streams which they have no interest and pursuing them
only for a job in IT field..So there are lot many factors which makes the
students to shy away from doing projects especially in open source...
Students of my age in other countries especially in US and EU have contributed
a lot for open source but we (majority of engineering students in India) even
dont know what is GPL..:-) this is curren
From: Raman.P <[email protected]>
To: ILUG-C <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, 20 April, 2010 9:09:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Kind Request to the Workshop Organisers
--- On Mon, 19/4/10, sri kumaran <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: sri kumaran <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Kind Request to the Workshop Organisers
> To: "ILUG-C" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, 19 April, 2010, 7:54 PM
> Dear Mr. Jeyanthan,
> Sorry
> for that comma error ..Uploading of slides will be useful
> but videos are more important for students like us who are
> new to this field.It may be the reason why most of the
> universities have started uploading videos of lectures and
> not only the slides and notes.NPTEL has been doing a really
> good job!!
We at ILUGC can do a tutorial every week if you want. But where are the
students you are talking about? Everytime we try - remember weekly GNU
Vidyashram started by Sakthi- the response was very poor. This is the reason
why we want others to organise and ILUGC provides only the technical resource.
However, we are willing to retry weekly tutorial if there are atleast 10
students in each session.
Raman.P
blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/
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