Hi,
Today Karthik, Ravishankar and I met Prabhod, a faculty at CMRIT, Bangalore. We were very happy to learn that the computer science dept. in the Institution has moved to GNU-linux platform and also the management has instructed all of its students ( which includes all the streams) to use only GNU-linux on their laptops. Infact, all other departments also have been convinced and are moving to GNU-linux. Prabhod said the management would be very happy from this development as it would save lot of money on licensing.
Earlier, about 3 months back, Suresh kodoor and Rakesh had visited CMRIT and taken sessions on free software philosophy and installation session.
Prabhod and his HOD informed that installation session of GNU-linux could be held for about 250 students on their laptops during the technical fest. Hence, one day session covering free software philosophy, installation, alternatives available for different streams has been planned on 21.03.2009 at CMRIT. This is for about 250 students of II semester of all the students. Other college students may also join for the same.
The HOD has invited us to take one day workshop for their faculty as well for which planning is being done.
-jk
This is great news.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:59 PM, jaykumar hs jaykumarhs@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Today Karthik, Ravishankar and I met Prabhod, a faculty at CMRIT, Bangalore. We were very happy to learn that the computer science dept. in the Institution has moved to GNU-linux platform and also the management has instructed all of its students ( which includes all the streams) to use only GNU-linux on their laptops. Infact, all other departments also have been convinced and are moving to GNU-linux. Prabhod said the management would be very happy from this development as it would save lot of money on licensing.
Earlier, about 3 months back, Suresh kodoor and Rakesh had visited CMRIT and taken sessions on free software philosophy and installation session.
Prabhod and his HOD informed that installation session of GNU-linux could be held for about 250 students on their laptops during the technical fest. Hence, one day session covering free software philosophy, installation, alternatives available for different streams has been planned on 21.03.2009 at CMRIT. This is for about 250 students of II semester of all the students. Other college students may also join for the same.
The HOD has invited us to take one day workshop for their faculty as well for which planning is being done.
-jk
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:59 PM, jaykumar hs jaykumarhs@gmail.com wrote:
The HOD has invited us to take one day workshop for their faculty as well for which planning is being done.
great news , and all the best!----
what after installation? any plans, are you people willing to share your next plans at CMRIT?
can you people talk to the college authorities ( principal / management ) and students about VTU inclusion of proprietary software / technologies in syllabus and motivate students to fight against that....
if this could be documented well probably that would help others in coming days.
-jk
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Great work Prabodh...!!!Let us keep it moving forward...
Rakesh
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:26 AM, renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:59 PM, jaykumar hs jaykumarhs@gmail.com wrote:
The HOD has invited us to take one day workshop for their faculty as well for which planning is being done.
great news , and all the best!----
what after installation? any plans, are you people willing to share your next plans at CMRIT?
can you people talk to the college authorities ( principal / management ) and students about VTU inclusion of proprietary software / technologies in syllabus and motivate students to fight against that....
if this could be documented well probably that would help others in coming days.
-jk
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