please check the mail and youtube video for the details of similar event conducted last year. Ranjith S. Kumar,Lecturer In Mechanical Engineering, Government Engineering, Collge,Barton Hill,Thiruvananthapuram -35,Mob.9447295213
--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Arun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Arun Mehta <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Fw: Workshop on Ruby on Rails @ GEC,Barton Hill > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Arun Ramachandran" <[email protected]>, "Manasi Kumari Dash" > <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 9:38 AM > Many thanks, Ranjith. > Perhaps this press release will provide additional useful > information for the students.... also, my slightly more upto > date resume is at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc72g763_133g4wzr5d4 > > Warmly, > Arun > ___ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Press Release > Skid Software for Special > Kids > > On > October 11, 2008 at 6:00 pm at the India International > Center, Indata > is proud to formally launch an initiative to provide free > of cost > communication support to children with special needs and > all those who > have difficulty with keyboard and mouse. We have set up a > website > skid.org.in, as home to a > large group of software modules that children > can use from any PC or mobile phone with access to the web. > It is also > a unique learning platform for beginners, who can learn web > programming > hands-on. The first module co-designed by students from > JMIT, Radaur, > Haryana, which allows special kids access to wikipedia, has > just gone > online. > > Children who cannot > communicate > rarely get an education, due medical attention or even > basic human > rights. However, many who cannot directly communicate with > others can > operate a computer, and have it speak what they type. > Pioneers like > Professor Stephen Hawking have proved that even severely > disabled > persons can reach eminence this way. However, this needed > someone to > write special software for him. The skid initiative is a > modest > beginning in affording such opportunities to large numbers > of children > with special needs, in that it is a process for developing > such > software on an ongoing basis, in an inclusive, > participatory manner. In > developing the words module, for instance, we have tried to > work with > the dyslexic, to make a smarter spell checker, that allows > them to work > with sounds and pictures, in selecting the right word. > > A > workshop we conducted together with the Autism Society of > India, the > Spastic Society of Karnataka and Radiophony in Bangalore in > 2007, with > 17 children > with autism and their care givers, provided us feedback on > existing > open source software in the area. It also inspired Skid, > which has > since been tried out with autistic kids in a workshop > organized in > July this year in Dehradun with the NGO Inspiration. Early > versions of > the software were taken through their paces by children > with cerebral > palsy at AADI, which is a special school. > > Given > diverse kinds of disability, even within autism, cerebral > palsy and > dyslexia, the different uses to which children might wish > to put > computers, not to mention languages, there will be ongoing > need to keep > adding modules, and finding imaginative new ways to combine > them. To > address this need, the Skid initiative invites college > students who > know a little programming to undergo free of cost > summer training with > us, in which they write software that doesn't just > gather dust, but is > put onto the web. Not only will they have the satisfaction > that > thousands of kids from around the world are benefiting from > what they > wrote, they also receive public credit on the page they > helped design. > > Since > programming is a skill like swimming or driving, the > approach adopted > in the skid project right from the beginning, is to > actually write > useful software in small groups with intensive interaction > with > experts. To supplement the face-to-face interaction, Indata > has also > been conducting free online workshops using forums such as > Second Life. > > > Indata Com Pvt. Ltd. > B-69, 2nd > Floor, > Lajpat Nagar Part I, > New Delhi. > > Ph- 29817007, 98731 99898 > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 PM, > ranjith s kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear Sir > > check the attachment > > > > RANJITH S. KUMAR > > Lecturer In Mechanical Engineering > > Government Engineering College > > Barton Hill > > Thiruvananthapuram-35 > > Kerala, India > > > > > > > > --- On Thu, 8/28/08, ranjith s kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > From: ranjith s kumar <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Workshop on Ruby on Rails @ GEC,Barton Hill > > > To: "lug tvm" <[email protected]>, > "deepak r" <[email protected]>, > "baiju M R" <[email protected]> > > > > Cc: "ranjith s" <[email protected]> > > > Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 11:41 PM > > > Dear All > > > Free Software Cell of Government Engineering College > > > ,Barton Hill is organizing a one day workshop on > > > "Interface Development for Disabled Using Ruby on > Rails" > > > in association with Insight project ,Kerala State IT > Mission > > > and Society for Promotion on Alternate Computing and > > > Employment (SPACE) on Thursday, 4th September 2008 at > > > college campus. > > > > > > Details are given in notice attached with this mail. > > > > > > Now it is the responsibility of technical community > to > > > ensure the differently abled kids should not felt > that, they > > > are helpless in this beautiful world . > > > > > > This is a golden opportunity for engineering students, > that > > > they can associate with Dr. Arun Mehta in his > opensource > > > project skid.org.in and that can be > extended to their course > > > main project using the state of art free Software > > > develepment environment Ruby on Rails. > > > > > > Before proceeding to the notice please refer following > link > > > > > > > > > http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=l7eMoA3cr8E > > > > > > > > > for more details > > > http://skid.org.in/ > > > > > > http://www.radiophony.com/html_files/arun.html > > > > > > http://www.rubyonrails.org/ > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_rails > > > > > > > > > RANJITH S. KUMAR > > > Lecturer In Mechanical Engineering > > > Government Engineering College > > > Barton Hill > > > Thiruvananthapuram-35 > > > Kerala, India > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
