On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:42 +0530, Vickram Crishna wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Anivar Aravind > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On തിങ്കള് 12 ഒക്ടോബര് 2009 09:25 > >> , sankarshan wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Anivar Aravind > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >> 'Encouragement for student commitment and contribution to FOSS' > >> > >> I suggest we add "Encouraging student commitment and contribution to FOSS" > >> as a point in the charter. > >> > > > > This suites for a SIG > > > > While I understand the background and reasoning for this addition, > imho it separates 'students' from other people. Just as in education, > the meaning of the term is somewhat different in conventional > understanding than what we might mean here. For instance, I am sure we > do not intend to differentiate between school/college-going students, > and say, someone who is able to learn from online tutorials at a > cybercafe, whether or not enrolled in a formal education system. > > Secondly, the word "commitment" used this way smacks somewhat > semantically of compulsion, I fear. > > How about "Specific environments to encourage the creative > contribution of all learning persons to FOSS"? > +1 and by the way I already know few students who are good teachers (o.k resource persons), and also a few faculties in colleges for example who are students so to speak. So may be there will not be a point to seperate as Vikram rightly said. I had mentioned about a team I have built as a task force for massive foss awareness and we have got great success in some places of Maharashtra and we are gettting invitations from various schools and colleges. In this team there are a lot of college going students but they are dedicated in spreadking the awareness and as a matter of fact, we never had to ask for any commitment from them.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant. _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
