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by Ravi Dwivedi

A new group has been created for discussion in Hindi. The group can be joined via XMPP/Quicksy app by clicking the following link and opening the link in the app https://join.jabber.network/#fs-edu-hi@groups.poddery.com?join If you would like to join manually, the XMPP address of the group is fs-edu-hi(a)groups.poddery.com -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc FSCI fundraiser https://fsci.in/blog/fsci-crowdfunding-2022/

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A video on Free Software in Education

by Ravi Dwivedi

Dear All, I recently made a video in Hindi about the importance of Free Software in Education for a teacher training program. Just sharing here https://videos.fsci.in/videos/watch/1c6f69c4-0842-4112-9e7b-2df489505aea. Thanks! -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc FSCI fundraiser https://fsci.in/blog/fsci-crowdfunding-2022/

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Fwd: [Camp-Announce] Snehal's session on Free/Libre Software in Education

by Pirate Praveen

-------- യഥാർത്ഥ സന്ദേശം -------- പ്രേഷിതാവ്: Ravi Dwivedi <ravi(a)ravidwivedi.in> അയച്ചു: 2021, ഡിസംബർ 4 2:08:57 PM IST സ്വീകർത്താവ്: camp-announce(a)lists.fsci.in വിഷയം: [Camp-Announce] Snehal's session on Free/Libre Software in Education Dear All, Snehal, who is an assistant professor at a department in Pune University(Snehal's personal webpage https://inferred.in/) will take a session in the camp today on why Free Software is important in education and will share his experience on how he managed to switch his department to Free Software in teaching. Meeting details are given below: Date: 4 December 2021 Time: 6 PM Indian Time URL: https://bbb.scms.unipune.ac.in/b/sne-ld0-xtb-c8g Access Code: 052814 -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc Privacy Yathra Campaign https://privacyyathra.in You can see all previous posts to this mailing list at https://lists.fsci.org.in/hyperkitty/list/camp-announce@lists.fsci.in/ If you have any questions, write to camp(a)fsci.in To unsubscribe send an email to camp-announce-leave(a)lists.fsci.in -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Reecording for Free Software for online classes by Snehal Shekatkar on October 9th

by Ravi Dwivedi

Dear All, The recording link for Free Software for online classes by Snehal Shekatkar held on October 9th at 15:00 IST is here https://bbb.scms.unipune.ac.in/playback/presentation/2.3/aa16d938d6d1af4c33… . Can anyone help Snehal to get a downloadable link of the recording? Right now, we cannot see a way to download the recording. Thanks. -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc Why care about privacy? https://www.socialcooling.com/

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Request to share Software Freedom Camp details

by Ravi Dwivedi

Dear all, FSCI (https://fsci.in) is organizing Software Freedom Camp Diversity Edition 2021. Details here https://camp.fsci.in. I request you all to widely publicize this camp amongst school/colleges and otherwise too. Feel free to download the camp poster from this URL and share to raise awareness about the camp https://ravidwivedi.in/images/camp-poster.png. Thanks a lot for your help. -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc Why care about privacy? https://www.socialcooling.com/

1 year, 8 months

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Join our chat groups

by Ravi Dwivedi

Dear All, You can join our chat groups by using the URLs mentioned below. If you are new to XMPP or Matrix, I suggest you to use Quicksy app(https://quicksy.im) as a starting point and open the below mentioned URL (in front of XMPP/Quicksy) in the Quicksy app to join our chat group. XMPP/Quicksy: https://conversations.im/j/fs-edu@groups.poddery.com Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#fs-edu:poddery.com Both XMPP and Matrix groups are interconnected. You can join our web based collaborative decision making group https://codema.in/free-software-community-of-india-fsci-free-software-for-e…. -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc Why care about privacy? https://www.socialcooling.com/

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Sign the letter to Kerala Teachers

by Ravi Dwivedi

Dear All, Please sign the open letter to Kerala teachers to adopt free software in education https://fsci.in/blog/letter-to-kerala-teachers/. Thanks a lot!! -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc Why care about privacy? https://www.socialcooling.com/

1 year, 8 months

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by Nita Bisht

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Next steps for IISER Pune

by Pirate Praveen

Hi, We can discuss our next steps at https://codema.in/d/1wxz6OPy/proposal-to-iiser-pune-for-shifting-to-free-so… Thanks Praveen

1 year, 8 months

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Re: About IISER Pune switching to Free Software for Education

by Snehal M Shekatkar

Dear Prof. Bapat, Thank you very much for the reply. It means a lot for us. Is this Friday 6:00 pm possible for you and other faculty members? I am keeping the education group of FSCI in the cc just so that they will also get the update. I agree that most people would view this as a nuisance. But this is always the case for many changes that are made for the good. All of us at FSCI need to work hard convincing people that freedom is so important that paying some cost is completely fine, and returns are huge. As I also said in my last e-mail, although software freedom is our main goal, as a side effect we also end up saving money. In this case, some of us can also volunteer for talking to people if they are ready to talk to. Kindly let us know so that we would be able to schedule the meeting. I will send you a meeting link after the confirmation. Thanks again. Best regards, Snehal M. Shekatkar -- Snehal M Shekatkar Pune, India https://inferred.co Sep 27, 2021, 15:15 by dean.acad(a)iiserpune.ac.in: > > Dear Snehal, > > Sorry for the delay in responding to you. I have been rather busy, and could not therefore pay attention to this. > > I appreciate the effort you are putting in and I am sure there are some people here who would be interested in the proposal you have made. However, I am afraid, that any change will generally be looked upon as a nuisance and a time sink by the majority of people. So, although I do see merit in what you are trying to do, I can't promise you anything at the moment. We are mainly using Google Classroom for online teaching, mainly because of a perceived ease of transition when the pandemic hit the hardest, although we have had the moodle platform running for some courses during normal times. I am sure that even after the online classroom phase is over, people will continue to use online tools, so it would be useful to discuss your proposal. > > Let me try to put together a team of people who would be interested, and we can meet either this coming Friday or early next week. > > Sorry once again for the delay. > > Regards, > Bhas > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Bhas Bapat > Dean (Academics) > and > Professor (Physics) > Indian Institute of Science Education and Research > Pune 411008 > India > Phone : +91-20-2590-8248 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > From: > "snehal" <snehal(a)inferred.co> > To: > "dean acad" <dean.acad(a)iiserpune.ac.in> > Cc: > "MS Santhanam" <santh(a)iiserpune.ac.in> > Sent: > Wednesday, 22 September, 2021 11:44:22 > Subject: > About IISER Pune switching to Free Software for Education > > Dear Prof. Bhas Bapat, > > I am an assistant professor in Pune University, and I also happen to be a working group member of the Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) and that of Free Software Community of India (FSCI). I had talked to Prof. M.S. Santhanam about a possibility that IISER Pune may want to entirely switch to Free Software for educational activities. I am willing to offer assistance on behalf of FSCI for this transition. > > Thus, would it be possible for you along with one or two other faculty members from IISER Pune to meet us online sometime to discuss the issue in more detail? Although we are mainly concerned about software freedom, and not money, as a side-effect IISER Pune would also end up saving large amount of money if you do decide to switch. I would highly appreciate if you could find some time from your busy schedule for the proposed meeting. If you want any quick discussion, you can also call me on my cellphone (9673847472). > > We eagerly wait for your positive response. > > Best regards, > Snehal Shekatkar > > > -- > Snehal M Shekatkar > Pune, India > https://inferred.co >

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