On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 22:21 +0530, Anna malai wrote: > I am new to this group. I am working in a engineering college from > 2000 > onwards as a admin. I tried to implement linux from 2005 onwards. But > at the > time lot of difficulties i faced from the staff side. > > Now the things are changed. Students are most aware about open source. > > I heard about NRC-FOSS which is funded by central government. They > have to > support colleges. But I dont know now they are working r not?
they are working > > As per the AICTE norms engineering colleges may use open source > software. > But the AICTE committee people not aware about open source. not true - this year in Coimbatore AICTE gave recognition to one college which had pure foss in it's lab > > It is their(NRC-FOSS) duty to educate the committee people about open > source which we have done > > If approached NRC-FOSS There is no proper answer. how did you approach? > I went NRC-FOSS directly > and i was really shocked to see a big LCD display which is working on > windows. LCD displays do not work on windows - it must have been connected to a computer running windows. And what is your problem with this? NRC-FOSS is housed in the AU-KBC centre which also does a lot of work in proprietary software - so it is quite natural that they use windows. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
