IOE FOSS Community under the guidance of ACEN (Association of Computer Engineers Nepal) and NITC (National Information and Technology Center) conducted a survey cum campaign to promote FOSS among the school students this February and March . This here is an abstract of the abstract of the report prepared by us. The link to the article is http://foss-nepal.googlegroups.com/web/Foss_campaign_Report_ACEN_IOEFOSS.pdf Please go through it and give us your feedback
" It must have been just a bubble of thought in someones mind years back, but today the open source revolution has indeed become a reality, embracing the whole globe and creating rather a phenomenon. With IT booms taking place in the neighborhood, Nepal does not come under an exception. To stand against the billows of these accelerated growths, Nepal has to produce versatile manpower adept in utilizing resources of both worlds: open source as well as its counterparts......................... Hence, this campaign targeted the school as well as college students making them aware of the 'Free and Open Source software's. As a major phase of the campaign, 10 schools within Kathmandu Valley were visited. The campaign included Government as well as Private schools. Presentations were given to class 8, 9 and 10 in most schools and in some schools, presentations were given to the college going students. The schools were also provided with 5 live CD's of five different Linux distributions and 1 CD containing FOSS for windows. Questionnaires were also distributed to the students as well as the teachers present during the presentation. " Shishir Jha IOE FOSS Community Pulchowk Campus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
