A half day Foss Advocacy programme conducted at Vidhya Mandir Arts and
Science College, Uthangarai, Krishnagiri District on 28.01.2010. Around 250
students from II & III year BCA and B.Sc(Com.Sci) and 12 faculty members
were participated. The topic covered are, the basics, importance and
advantages of open source, Many live examples and demos of basic tools
covered and finally briefed about ILUGC.
Since the college is in rural area they are very new to open source. But
they are very much impressed about the advantages of using Open source
tools.
Before that i had meeting with the faculty of BCA, B.Sc(CS) and BBA (CA).
Around 24 faculty members were present. We had discussed various usage of
Open source tools, how to create awareness and take the open source tools to
the students community, how to adopt open source tools in the college, where
can the faculty and students gets support finally briefed about the ILUGC
activity.
Had very good feedback from the students and college authority. They wanted
to have some more sessions on this area.
I thank the Principal, Dr. K. Arul, the BCA HOD Ms. Kavitha and all the
faculty members for the opportunity. They promised that, very soon they are
going to have FOSS lab and FOSS Club in their campus.
with reards
M.Kumaran
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