On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Amol Hatwar <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:50 AM, H.S.Rai wrote: > > > Student's competition of IIT Kharagpur want presentation only with > > proprietary format. See rules under round 3 of > > http://www.ktj.in/#eureka > > > > "For the final round the participants will have to give their > > presentation in Macromedia flash 8.0/Microsoft PowerPoint." > > Yuck! > > Imagine the state of the country's IT sector, if college students at India's top graduate engineering institutions are unaware of alternatives to proprietary software and unconscious of the need to keep an open environment, even at such innocuous events. In attempts to change this situation at other, less prestigious, colleges, I have personally seen that the entire infrastructure is designed to perpetuate 'conventional wisdom', 'currently accepted norms' and so on. This lethargy presents the greatest challenge. It is at the core of a failure within the Indian educational system, where we are 'training' millions of young people to behave like sheep. Or, given the proportions in our own animal husbandry scenario, like goats. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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