[Ilugc] Why FOSS for Education, a presentation in PDF format

From: baskar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Baskar Selvaraj)
Date: Thu Nov 29 10:34:40 2007

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shakthi Kannan" <shakthimaan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Why FOSS for Education, a presentation in PDF format

Hi,

--- Baskar wrote:
| Looking for everyone's feedback and suggestions
\--

Some feedback:

1. Why FOSS for education?

The first reason should be 'freedom'. Cost is secondary. The first
reason always registers in peoples' mind, strongly, compared to the
other points. So, it is important.

In the 3rd slide itself, the presentation gives more importance for the 4
software freedoms, I hope that,
this itself registers in people's mind strongly, before going ahead with cost.

2. The Most Popular FOSS Programs

Linux is a kernel, not an OS.

ok, I will change that to GNU/Linux instead of Linux

3. The Most Popular FOSS Programs

Statements with "#1" are quite debatable. You need to give some
statistics, or just mention as popular. That is good enough.

The statistics were taken from www.dwheeler.com (and I will give a link to the
website
for referring statistics)

4. Put a license in the documentation that mentions how this
documentation can be distributed/re-used.

Ok, I will make it available under FDL soon and will also mention it in the
documentaion.

5. Avoid giving private/college data in your screenshots. Use dummy data.

Ok, I will remove the college details slide and have only the report slide.

It is ok to mention it, but, don't give their internal contact details
(unless you have permission from them).

6. For some pictures that you have used or copied from some website
(like Linus Torvalds, RMS), give source web link as to from where you
have taken it from.

ok, Thanks for this suggestion.

The desktop screenshots are yours, so they are ok.

Overall, you have provided good coverage of available applications.

On a side note, your screenshots show that you have logged to X as
root user. Do you use your desktop like that?

Not frequently, but for taking screenshots of few applications required root
persmissions and
it became painful to su, so I used root account.

Regards

Baskar

Regards,

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
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