Hi, This is great news ..... I wish i could be take part in voluntering .... I would like to hear more about this voluntring stuff as to what kind of help is required and when to start .... If possible pla reach me out or share your contact detail to discuss about ....
My no :9841615750 On Mar 8, 2014 9:10 AM, "Baskar Selvaraj" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > The Engineering colleges in Tamilnadu have started moving from > Proprietary operating system to GNU/Linux operating system. > > We have setup Fedora-20 based Open source lab in more than 15+ > engineering colleges after its final release on December 17, 2013. > The latest version of Fedora has attracted many of the colleges > towards GNU/Linux platform and most colleges have decided to migrate > atleast 50% of computers using Linux in all departments (one of the > engineering college located within Chennai city has already migrated > 10% of computers completely to Fedora-20 and would switch another 40% > by the end of March ' 2014). > > After interacting with several engineering college management > authorities, I found that, the colleges were no more interested in > paying for software license for proprietary software and therefore > decided to migrate to Linux platform and train all the faculty members > for using them. > > Hence, based on the feedback and response we got from colleges, we > have decided to setup more than 100+ FOSS Labs on April 8th, 2014. > > We are looking for volunteers support who can support this initiative. > Any monetary benefits we receive from colleges would be shared with > the volunteers. > > I am ready to offer FREE training / resources for the volunteers who > wish to support this initiative. > > Would like to hear your thoughts / ideas. > > -- > S. Baskar > > Twitter : http://twitter.com/linuxbaskar > LinkedIN : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/baskar-selvaraj/21/881/b29 > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
