FSF India, SPACE and NIT, Calicut, are organising a national conference on Free Software and Education at Calicut during September 10-12. We expect to have speakers from prominent institutes such as IIT, TIFR, IIIT, etc. who will explain why only Free Software should be used in education and also demonstrate applications like Octave, Maxima, GNU R, etc. that can be used in various courses in our institutions of higher education. We also hope to have Stallman delivering the keynote address. The conference will also give a call to all institutions of higher education to use only Free Software in the various curricula. We hope this will help in our advocacy efforts with universities and other institutions. Several academicians from other countries are interested in endorsing this call.
We request our members to help bring to the conference people who make decisions on curricula. We shall give further details as soon as the website of the conference is set up. Regards Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
