28 Oct
2008
28 Oct
'08
4:35 p.m.
Dear Friends,
In order to strengthen our campaigns to migrate schools in India to
free software we must understand current situation. This mail is a
request for volunteers from around the country to document current
situation.
We need to collect information from every state and document it is a
public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel
free to modify.
1. State Name
2. Organisation setting the curriculum
3. Contact Details
4. Website
5. Curriculum details
5.a. Does curriculum includes IT/CS - Yes/No
5.b. Is IT/CS a compulsory subject - Yes/No
5.c. Does the curriculum specify any particular software -
5.d Is IT/CS an optional subject ? - Yes/No
6. IT/CS Syllabus
6.a. Does the syllabus specify software - Yes/No
6.b. Is it based on - Free Software/Proprietary Software/Both/
7. Other information
7.a. Is there an external agency for IT training - Yes/No
7.b. Is there any training being provided to teachers -
regards
arun
28 Oct
28 Oct
4:52 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> wrote:
Dear Friends,
In order to strengthen our campaigns to migrate schools in India to
free software we must understand current situation. This mail is a
request for volunteers from around the country to document current
situation.
We need to collect information from every state and document it is a
public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel
free to modify.
1. State Name
2. Organisation setting the curriculum
3. Contact Details
4. Website
5. Curriculum details
5.a. Does curriculum includes IT/CS - Yes/No
5.b. Is IT/CS a compulsory subject - Yes/No
5.c. Does the curriculum specify any particular software -
5.d Is IT/CS an optional subject ? - Yes/No
6. IT/CS Syllabus
6.a. Does the syllabus specify software - Yes/No
6.b. Is it based on - Free Software/Proprietary Software/Both/
7. Other information
7.a. Is there an external agency for IT training - Yes/No
7.b. Is there any training being provided to teachers -
Arun, also see the work we collectively done on FCI wikia : A review
of Proprietary mentions in Syllabus all over the country
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Syllabus_Review
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Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs.
Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.
5:03 p.m.
> We need to collect information from every state
and document it is a
> public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel
> free to modify.
Thats great. Seems that good amount of work has been done already.
Can we contact the volunteers who had worked on this document to
add some more data to enable us to contact these organisation ?
regards,
arun
5:28 p.m.
"Arun M" <arun(a)gnu.org.in> writes:
That wiki page was
started as per the initiations from venkitesh
hariharan , and with the support of anivar and praveen.
I have been working on the wiki by searching over the
internet first to complete on all school curriculum.
My own curriculum/academics came in between which pressured me to pause
the work for a while. It was aimed to be completed in a month. But short
of volunteers lead it to a pause.
But for last one week, I have been re-initiating the work. Am trying to
finish the state level school sylabi. It will be great if we can
continue the work, then we can very easily complete the work in this
year itself.
Regards
Shyam K
> We need to
collect information from every state and document it is a
> public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel
> free to modify.
Thats great. Seems that good amount of work has been done already.
Can we contact the volunteers who had worked on this document to
add some more data to enable us to contact these organisation ?
30 Oct
30 Oct
6:29 a.m.
My own curriculum/academics came in between which
pressured me to pause
the work for a while. It was aimed to be completed in a month. But short
of volunteers lead it to a pause.
But for last one week, I have been re-initiating the work. Am trying to
finish the state level school sylabi. It will be great if we can
continue the work, then we can very easily complete the work in this
year itself.
Hi Syam,
Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us
in sending representations and to followup. We can also request
our friends in other states to collect information from respective
states.
regards
arun
7:27 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> wrote:
Hi Syam,
Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us
in sending representations and to followup. We can also request
our friends in other states to collect information from respective
states.
i will also try get karnataka state's syllabus -- ( covering all the
universities also ) -- but it may take some time to format , please pardon
me for that
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7:32 a.m.
Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us
in sending representations and to followup. We can also request
our friends in other states to collect information from respective
states.
i will also try get karnataka state's syllabus -- ( covering all the
universities also ) -- but it may take some time to format , please pardon
me for that
8:01 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> wrote:
pardon
thats fine -- let us work towards that only
Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us
in sending representations and to followup. We can also request
our friends in other states to collect information from respective
states.
i will also try get karnataka state's syllabus -- ( covering all the
universities also ) -- but it may take some time to format , please me for that
I think our priority should be schools. We wont be able to flight all the
battles at the same time.
regards
arun
28 Oct
28 Oct
6:38 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> wrote:
Yes Sure. It was venky's idea. Shyam leaded the efforts. Please
Discuss in http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/education-discuss-fosscom.in
All volunteers Contributed to this effort is part of this list
I feel we need to use this data for the ongoing discussions on
National policy on ICT 4 Education .
Anivar
> We need to
collect information from every state and document it is a
> public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel
> free to modify.
Thats great. Seems that good amount of work has been done already.
Can we contact the volunteers who had worked on this document to
add some more data to enable us to contact these organisation ? regards,
arun
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Software industry because it creates the basis for future jobs.
Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds.
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