-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 PM, mallikarjun arjun > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I recently read an article about china being too much concentrating on linux >> education one such is in "http://www.linux.com/feature/144852";. >> At that time i thought why cant we approach universities (in karnataka like >> VTU, BU and i dont know in other states) to have courses on Open source, >> Linux, and many more, I am very sure most of us know what these universities >> teach. >> If it is already under progress please ignore this, I am unaware. > > Engineering courses in most of universities I am aware of don't even > talk about any industry related tools. ex. build tools like make and > ant, protocols like ssh and vnc etc. So open source and linux don't > even exist for them. > > But this doesn't mean that we can't do it. Doing this on personal > basis will be a good start. For example those of us who are working in > industry already can design courses about various tools and conduct > them in their colleges ans and when possible. > > > Onkar > Right, I have been writing articles on Linux for a while now in Kannada to involve people into Linux learning at various levels. People from many different areas are interested in exploring and using Ubuntu more than what I had expected. Students can really take advantage of Install fests and other work shops which we can conduct during the weekends. It can really add value here until universities add FOSS courses into their syllabus.
Following are the few article under the title "LinuxaayaNa" in which I have been talking about Ubuntu and its features. We even conducted an Install Fest called "Gnu/Linux habba" in April @ IISc and its being repeated again in Mysore next month. (more info on this event can be found at http://habba.in) http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/26/08/2008/11163 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/20/08/2008/11021 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/06/08/2008/10644 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/25/06/2008/9481 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/24/06/2008/9466 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/15/06/2008/9303 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/08/06/2008/9189 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/26/05/2008/8962 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/25/05/2008/8938 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/14/05/2008/8779 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/11/05/2008/8744 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/16/03/2008/7863 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/28/02/2008/7645 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/12/02/2008/7457 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/04/02/2008/7332 http://sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash/01/02/2008/7279 - -- - -- "A well-directed imagination is the source of great deeds" - -- With Best Regards, Omshivaprakash.H.L | ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್. ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल् Website : http://www.techfiz.info Blog : http://platonic.techfiz.info Phone: 91- 9902026518 AIM : fizworks ICQ : 265216744 IRC : #techfiz server: irc.freenode.net channel: #linux-india #ubuntu-in #gnu-india #kannada -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFItsh07OA72yfkJqMRAsKWAKCPrH2DOYy4SP8nmEQ33Ouogt/1oACfSD93 UyJACGKyVQvmaWN0Pjaaw50= =sm5Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
