[Ilugc] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] Interview of Linus Torvalds; He Also Speaks Of Sad Situation Of India
- From: technocraze@xxxxxxxxx (technocraze)
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:30:04 +0530
On 11/3/2011 11:00 AM, Manokaran K wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, technocraze<technocraze at gmail.com> wrote:
I wish, LUGC could research more on this and propose solutions.
You have succinctly captured our fundamental problem: we would like some
one else to solve our problems - do the ground work, analyze and propose a
few options so we can easily pick one and implement it :-)
The much derided college education system is only a reflection of the
larger issues in our society!
Don't get me wrong, am as much in the same boat as you!
I am already doing this for the past 3 years, at the individual
capacity.. and today, i have around 5 persons whom i trained supporting
me. and i had networked with few like minded people in my region. As
an individual, i could only do what is possible in my surrounding and
environment.
Why i called in ILUGC is, to create a systematic decentralised
framework, to bring in a change at the state level. In my
understanding, we dont have a direction. We cannot expect student to
learn all by themselves, to search for themselves a suitable open source
project and then to join it. Because, they lack the basic essential skills.
There are around 600 engineering college in tamilnadu alone. I believe,
atleast 100 of them would have good facilities. If we could make
atleast two or three students in each of these selected 100 college to
participate in an open source project, we would be having atleast 200
students from tamilnadu alone contributing to open source.
But we dont have that big initiative.
Only Linux Baskar from this group has covered most colleges in tamilnadu
in installing open source labs, which is mindblowing. Why not we
utilise his network for bringing the next push?
PS: When some one puts forth a suggestion, please dont bang on him
asking "What have you done".. Focus on the idea being suggested.
Regards,
Senthil
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