This is one of the best news for a long time. Thank you all for making a better world. kussh
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 8:27 PM Tayyabali Sayyad <[email protected]> wrote: > We are very glad to make you know that the restructured IT syllabus of XI > standard is based exclusively on Open Source content. The books are now > available in the market. Around 1.5 lac students in Maharashtra will be > introduced to Linux and open source from this and successive years. > > Although the recommended OS is Ubuntu 18.04, LTS, students can use any > other Linux Distro if they are interested. All screenshots are that of OSS. > This was indeed a major hurdle in migration with old textbooks. > > The book follows the National Education Policy in ICT education in order to > make the education cost-effective, ethical and accessible to all. > > This is undoubtedly the result of the seeds sown by our veteran founders of > ilug-bom. > > We are incredibly fortunate to have your support in our journey of > restructuring the syllabus of IT for XI standard. This couldn't have been > achieved without your timely and valuable support. > > The most substantial contribution is from Krishnakant Mane and his GNUKhata > team. The extensive training which the team provided gave BOS members > tremendous confidence, especially in the accounting software. > > Special thanks to Prajakta Patkar, Karan Kamdar and Abhijit of GNUKhata > team. > > Our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Nagarjuna, Prof Khedkar, Prof Abhinav Jog, > Chandita, and Kasinath Guru. > > We are thankful to Adv V P Patil, Adv Amardev Unniyal and Sudhakar Kashyap > for their help regarding PIL. > > Thanks to Fr Jude and Sajida of St Mary High School, Sr Meena of Auxilium > High School, Gayathri Narayanan (SIWS College), Vidyadhar Mhatre, > Shrikrishna Joshi. > > We are very much thankful to Sudhanwa Joglekar, Gaurav Pant and many other > members from PLUG. > > We are thankful to Balbharti, Hon Director, Support Staff and of course to > all BOS team members (listed in the textbook) > > We are thankful to Rushubh Mehta and Dr Nambiar, Director DBIT, for > providing space for ilug-bom meetings and FOSS events. > > Words are not enough to express how grateful we are for the help you all > extended to us directly or indirectly. > > Please accept our warmest thanks for your support. We hope to get the same > support in the years to come. > > After this two year course, students join various graduation courses, > especially BSc(IT) recognized by Mumbai University. > These courses still use proprietary software on a large scale in the degree > college computer labs. > > Although many degree colleges are struggling to migrate to open source, > they are held back due to some exclusive vendor based products in the > curriculum. We expect far more support in order to pursue this issue at the > university level. > > - Team Don Bosco > > Rushabh, Joe, Raghu, Rajeev,Tayyab, Nilesh, Milind, Pralhad, Benoy,Dhruv, > Sameer, Dr Medhekar, Vishal, Rajendra. > > -- > Thanks and Regards! > > Tayyabali Sayyad > Department of Information Technology > Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla, Mumbai 400 070 > Mob: 8605134503, 9167585261 > > www.opensourcetutorials.in > tayyabali.in > [email protected] > [email protected] > -- > https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- ----- -- https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
