Could we start by approaching Government schools in Chennai and take
permission to conduct sessions on FOSS during weekends?
I wanted to know if there is any site which would provide FOSS and Linux
quiz questions for high school students
Thank You
Anupama
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Arulalan T <arulalant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Friends,
Mr.Parin Sharma conducted FOSS workshop in school at Delhi.
Is there any school running under FOSS in Chennai or Tamil Nadu?
Shall we try to promote FOSS in chennai schools ?
The following mail content is sent by Parin Sharma to iitdlug
regarding his experience on workshop in his school.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Parin Sharma <parin.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2010/7/9
Subject: [LUG@IITD:8406] Back to my Alma mate with FOSS!!
To: iitdlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, posterous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Recently on 30th June 2010, I got an opportunity to give back
something to my school, my Alma mate with FOSS !! Below is a small
story how things started and went....
I had this thing in my mind for quite some time, schools are the
places where we are taught basic morals, etiquette, sharing things,
knowledge and other good things but unfortunately most of the Schools
in India teach Proprietary software like MS Windows, Office and other
Adobe stuff like Flash etc. so was the case with my school, DAV
CPS[1], Paschim Enclave, New Delhi. So I talked to Anand Wardhan sir,
one of the best teachers, I have met in my life!! Although, he is an
Economics teacher but still he understood my point when I told him
about FOSS Stuff and he immediately agreed for a workshop in School.
So it was 30th June, the day I was eagerly waiting for but was a bit
nervous too because it was for teachers!! OMG, now I had to present
something to teachers to who taught me some years back but I knew it
will be good!! So it was 11:45, and I started, first telling about
FOSS history and then its advantages, then SchoolOS[2] but since I had
just 1hr or so, I had to quickly jump to the Demo Educational
FOSS....I started with Maths S/w like Kig then showed Chemistry tools
and I tried to show almost every subject related FOSS but as always I
fell short of time and had to wind up my presentation showing FET and
Dia Diagram Editor, but as a start, it was enough, the teachers were
all smiling, blessing me!! It was a wonderful experience.... many
teacher in particular my chem teacher asked me to install BKChem and
other chem S/w asap because she found them really helpful! Overall it
was awesome but this is not it, I want things to get implemented asap,
want students and teachers to use FOSS!! Looking forward to it...All I
wanna tell everyone reading this, seriously its a beautiful experience
doing something for your school, your people!! Try it this summer go
back to your previous schools and tell them about Freedom that you get
when you use FOSS, so that the next gen coming can live in a pure Free
World!
[1] My School's Website - http://davschoolpemn.org
[2] SchoolOS - http://schoolos.org
You can also view/download my presentation from:
http://www.slideshare.net/parinsharma/fos-sintro-presdav
Original Post at http://bit.ly/ble0wH
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Regards,
Arulalan.T
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