Frederick Noronha (FN) said on Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:24:47PM +0530,:
I am looking for people who will help in pressurising CBSE and AICTE to change the syllabus to generic applications viz Learn a spreadsheet NOT SPECIFICALLY M$ EXCEL and so on. Any volunteers may please contact me off the list at atul@cheerful.com
The Kochi Free Software User's group had submitted a memorandum against similar moves by the Kerala Govt. The memo was partly successful. Partly, coz. the syllabus itself is not changed. But the text books have been re-written - I said - REWRITTEN, to include references to GNU/LINUX. GNU/LINUX, and nothing else. No references to applications like GIMP, or the concepts of free software.
They are now including OpenOffice.org in the Xth std textbooks. I find that the text book committee is more interested in creating something like one of those 'for dummies' series books for proprietary software.
Given the phenomenal resistance from the establishment to swatantra software, this much a great success.
Mr. Atul, You can refer to the memorandum sent to the government by the Free Software Users' group, available from http://www.symonds.net/~fsug-kochi.