Sorry to say this, i dis-agree with all your comments. Being a mathematics faculty, i comment something below,
In our autonomous institution we include the FOSS like LaTex and Scilab in our syllabus of PG and UG respectively. i use both for past 6 years. i take the effort to teach both for the staff members who are interested, by doing Workshops for past two years in our campus and out of campus. i get good responds like number of participants, encouraging words, other state participants etc... the feed back of the participants is that "there is no such workshops to learn LaTeX". For you information more than 16 participants in and around chennai were participated in last workshop "advanced workshop on Latex" during 1-3 dec, 2011 in tiruchengode. Also, i give special lectures on LaTeX in various institutions. In every institution i get good responds. >From my experience, i felt that in any educational institution there are some good and bad students as well as staff members. Even they know FOSS good for education but they need some easiest way to learn those things. Also there is no need to get the complete idea about the any software to teach. No one can learn or teach any software completely. there are plenty of FOSS but some group of people use it for their particular work. they never ready to learn some extra features even though they are good teachers or industrialist . "My suggestion is do some 2 day or 3 day workshops in a region where did you go to cover the syllabus as you mentioned. otherwise ask the people to arrange such workshops that cover the syllabus of the institution as well as it fullfill the needs and help to learn FOSS for the near by faculty members those are interested. Comment on that. Thank you. On 1/24/12, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote: > shall we ask that the college staff should join the training. > > they should join with us on training other colleges. > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Best wishes A. Naseer Ahmed, www.mathsunaseer.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
