Hi, Narendra. Thank you for this interesting snippet of your views and experience and reflections.
We're planning a special edition of http://flossed.org (aka http://opensourceschools.org) with articles by those who are/have been developers, teachers, promoters, users of free and open sources for education. We're shooting for mid November. A number of well-known players have offered to participate, but we would love to have articles from you and your readers. We're looking to make this a sort of "state of the community" issue -- honest and encouraging. Hoping to hear from those interested. Sincerely, David Bucknell flossed.org On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Narendra Sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear FOSS Enthusiasts and Activists. > I am writing this letter to all for a request to create a task force > to advocate FOSS in schools. If we fail to advocate Linux in schools then we > will be failed everywhere. > Most of the computer users like me are using computer from Last 5-6 > year or less. They learned everything in college only. Also at our time > computer was a costly device. We have not faced much difficult in migrating > from Windows to Linux. Now we love Linux based distro and advocate for open > curriculum, content , no-patents, no-DRM etc. > But today scenario has changed. Computer are available in every * > Mohalla* and Village. many of them are not having Internet connectivity. > they are just using some pirated software. This is not a small population. > This is a very huge population. This huge population of school students is > also including student who do not have money to buy computer but they are > learning using cybercafe and coaching classes. > If you do not tell them to use FOSS and Linux based Distro, they will > continue using pirated window software for next 10-15 year of their life > until they got lucky to enter into a college where Local LUG is active and > he got change to explore GSoC and other activities OR course curriculum > include FOSS. > *After 7 year, if you wish to give a lecture for advocating > FOSS/Linux in a college then Do you think you can convince them to use > FOSS/Linux and stop using the proprietary products which he is using from > last 10 years? > * During a workshop of Kids at NCERT, a 5th class kids refused to work > on Kturtle because he was using LOGO software from last 1 year. Those who do > not know LOGO created very beautiful diagrams with Kturtle. > You can only reach engineering students at College level Linux/FOSS > promotion and activities. But these student who are going to use proprietary > product for they whole school life will go in various domain like art, > music, law etc. you can never convince them after their mind-wash. > I learned to do advocacy from two side attack. System is like pyramid. > Bottom side contains huge student. and tip is controlled by those who run > Education system. at top level we need to look for syllabus change and other > activities. At bottom side we need to advocate FOSS and Linux principle in > schools. Imagine the power of community and collaboration value inside this > huge community. This student community need out love, care and guidance. We > can together create a task force and think for various strategies to > introduce FOSS in schools. If you empower this student community then they > can crate whole curriculum and e-learning videos of their syllabus by > themselves. > > > == Duty of Task Force == > * Creating mailing list or all FOSS + Edu persons > * Bring all FOSS+Edu on mailing list Or paper newsletter > * Creating Workshop for discussion. > * supporting the development of SchoolOS > * empower technical level of student and teacher > * Creating article for FOSS advocacy > * Creating template letters for creating workshop in schools > * getting help from NCERT and other institutes. > * Creating booklets/Books - Classwise > * Creating Portals for students and teacher > * Creating teacher and student community > > Please Join - SchoolOS mailing list - > http://groups.google.com/group/schoolos and wiki.schoolos.org > > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya > │ http://narendrasisodiya.com > └─────────────────────────┘ > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://intknowledge.com http://flossed.org http://makethewebyours.com We are more than 1%: Register your use of Linux: http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
