Hello All,
On Friday 19 December 2008 12:46 PM, .Kenney Jacob wrote:
Every large scale change starts with awareness.
I agree
Students should be aware of their freedom to choose their own topics.
It is not only about topics, freedom in a broader sense is being lost in
academics on the whole,
Of course, there needs to be a starting point which is this.
If this issue gets noticed by the academic community, we can push for
a circular from the university. For that to happen, this needs to be
discussed throughout the community.
What I feel can be done
- Create a pool of project ideas ( there are a lot of Free Software
Projects on the
Internet at different stages of development, we need to create a sort of
legend for
students ,
- Create a page on the Internet that will serve as a reference to teachers,
so that they are convinced of the scope of the project and how it can do
good
to the student, college and most important the "Community".
- Once projects are completed they are uploaded to the website and also
are presented and spoken of at events and Community group meetings
(like ILUG Cochin), and the project will develop wings.
- This will serve as an example and lesson for the other students as well
and then we have a whole lot of useful software created by the students
for the community.
- The Web page also needs information from the normal users and business
people, so that they can put in their requirements into the page so that
it becomes " a self sustaining community".
- Finally let us begin upon, and reiterate on what is the aim of an
academic project in our society and again " the free software community".
Many times students do not know what path they need to take to create
something useful for the society.
We need to draft an open letter to all educational institutions
which states what an academic projects means to the society and how
important is the freedom for students to pursue their own interests and how
they can guide them to the right path.
There are lot of teachers and academicians in the Mailing List. I believe
we can get lot of information from them. :)
Thank You
Regards
Sameer Mohamed Thahir
http://www.kenneyjacob.com
Kenney Jacob
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Mahesh Aravind <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
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--- On Tue, 12/16/08, .Kenney Jacob <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Wanna join the fighting force ?
>
Would like to.
What do I have to do?
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