Re: [Fsf-friends] [Fsf-kerala] Free Software in Higher Secondary

I will be away from the Net for a couple of days. Meanwhile, it would be good if someone can draft a letter to the Education Minister asking for removal of specific references to proprietary software in the Higher Secondary syllabus. I think we can first try to get that done and then try for introducing applications that will be of help in higher education (such as Octave, GNU R, xmaxima, gnuplot, etc. for the science stream) or later in life (like software for the audio visual media, image editing, etc.). It looks like we will have to do some amount of thorough planning for this. We will not only have to identify what software would be good and also people to train teachers in them.

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