Hello Dora I understand that you are a very busy person. But I think now is the right time to read that news article that came today in "The Hindu", some pointers:
"The IT@School Project — often seen as the technology arm of Education Department — claims to be the “largest simultaneous deployment” of FOSS-based ICT education. Mr. Sadath pointed out to The Hindu that every year an estimated 50 lakh students in the State derive the benefit of FOSS-based ICT education. " Are you aware of any other place in the world which claims to teach 50 Lakh students "Free Software". And even the news report meets your criteria, they call the system "GNU/Linux". https://www.itschool.gov.in/ Contact information: K Anvar Sadath director(at)itschool.gov.in Thank you Justin On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Dora Scilipoti <[email protected]> wrote: > justin joseph wrote: >> I just came accross such a state!! >> >> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1713580.ece >> >> ": After successfully popularising free software in Kerala's schools, >> the IT@School Project of the Education Department has given shape to a >> State-wide awareness campaign aimed at exposing the everyday computer >> user to the possibilities and advantages of using Linux-based >> software. " > > > Hello, > > first of all, thanks to Renuka Prasad for posting the message to the > list. Thanks also to people interested in helping. > > I would like to underline one point: unfortunately, I don't think > right now I will have time to follow this list and the interesting > pieces of news that are posted here. Maybe in the future I will be > able to do that. > > At the moment I will like to be contacted by schools, universities, > colleges, and even informal non official educational groups that are > actually using and teaching Free Software. I would like to talk to > the person responsible for this, for example the head director of the > institution or the teacher/professor in charge of the migration and/or > implementation of Free Software. > > We have a questionnaire to submit, questions that we need them to > answer. Then we will publish those answers in our website. > > We have some requirements. For example, we won't publish any reports > that mention "Open Source" or call the system "Linux". > > Thanks all for your interest. > > Dora > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
