Google's participation in academic programmes may give a different direction to the programme. A commercial entity's participation should naturally be suspect here. MHRD too is funding the exercise, and therefore, we need to appeal not just to IITs/IISc but to MHRD as well. Public funding definitely cannot be allowed to be hijacked by Google.
On 3 March 2014 17:16, varadarajan narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi ! > > Before you make an issue of this , please check if they have the platform > for SSO like OpenID and anyone can join with an e-mail ID which is SSO > compliant . > It may be gmail is one of the players. Also instead of simply raising > slogans against gmail, see how you can provide an alternative and give some > constructive suggestions. > Are you willing to pitch in and help them if they need help in SSO ? > > So the first step may be asking them what is the road map and if the follow > standards for OpenID . There are many open source platforms for openID. > > Cheers > > Rad > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:18 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Nagarjuna G <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Monday, March 03, 2014 03:17:36 PM Guru गुरु wrote: >>> >>> > NPTEL have come out with a course on Programming, Data Structures and >>> >>> > Algorithms <https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/programming101> which is >>> >>> > laudable... it is perhaps the first MOOC offering from MHRD. >>> >>> > However to >>> >>> > Sign Up <https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/programming101/register> >>> >>> > >>> >>> > A gmail account seems to be compulsory. Not clear why some one who >>> > wants >>> >>> > to study a course from MHRD, Government of India MUST have a GMAIL id? >>> >>> > (I think not long ago, Google's offer to Election Commission to 'manage >>> >>> > the voter information' was rejected but only after some protests from >>> >>> > political parties). >>> >>> > >>> >>> > Does anyone have more info on this matter? >>> >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> When I saw the ad in the paper the other day, I found the footer of the >>> ad has google as one of the partner. I am sure they are using google apps >>> for this mooc. therefore, without gmail id the students cannot register. >>> >>> >>> >>> Also if you see the header of the ad, all the iits have been listed. >>> >>> >>> >>> What a share? Even wth all the iits of India put together they cannot >>> make a mooc platform that can free the Indian students the dependence from >>> Google. >>> >>> >>> >>> I think we should send a representation immediately. Immediate reactions >>> sometimes work. Let us do a campaign! >>> >>> >>> >>> What do others think about this? >>> >>> >> >> >> Yes we should give a representation >>> >>> -- >>> >>> GN >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> network mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Renuka Prasad >> 9901945674 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> network mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >> > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- CK Raju _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
