On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < [email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to request you to explain a bit more about what you mean > by "FOSS strategy". What is your expectation from such a strategy and > its implementation? > Sir, by FOSS strategy I mean to say following and implementation FOSS Technology for their enterprise and for educating students. This will let students understand and experience something NEW and they can be innovative. Mostly students (even university students) are not familiar with Open Source culture (what I've seen so far). > > > Snippet from LinuxCon video which I shared last time: > > *" A university professor from Czech-Republic made all their students > get a > > patch merge into the kernel. That was one of their assignments. We got > > about 20 different patches and about 5 of them said that this is really > > easy. It was not hard at all. Thank you very much for letting me get a > good > > grade and I am gonna keep doing it. That was great. That Prof. did a > > wonderful job."**- Greg Kroah-Hartman* > > * > > * > > Wondering, is it possible in Indian education system? > > You can see this happening already. There are a significant number of > KDE, GNOME contributors who are students and, are building features, > fixing bugs in the applications. > Yes, I agree there are plenty of students and professionals who are contributing to Open Source projects but the ratio is very less in numbers. But my context was to implement this in schools, colleges and universities so that they can start from an early stage. Correct me if I am wrong. -- *Regards, Sahil ModGill* _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
