Great Initiative.Currently I am the **Student Chair of IEEE Branch at my college (SSKCET, Coimbatore) http://sskieee.com/ .I would like to know more about this project IGNITE.
Best Wishes Adhil Azeez NV On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Rahul Ramesh <msg4ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Raru, I will definitely let you know more about this. > > I'm looking forward to more responses. Please feel free to ask for any > clarifications. > > Thank you, > Rahul > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Raru Rv <raru...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Rahul Ramesh <msg4ra...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> The IEEE Student Branch at College of Engineering, Chengannur had >>> recently started a project called IGNITE. This project has been started >>> keeping in mind the difficulties a student would face during the transition >>> from school life to the college life, especially those who are from govt. >>> schools. During the first phase of the project's implementation, student >>> volunteers from our college had visited 60+ schools all over Kerala for this >>> purpose and an introduction on Project IGNITE has been given to them. In the >>> second phase we are planning to organize talks/seminars/workshops on >>> interesting areas exclusively for the 9th-12th students. And we will be >>> implementing 2nd phase in the month of August. >>> >>> The reason for this mail is to ask for the FOSS community's help in >>> spreading awareness about Free Software among the school students as a part >>> of this project. We are a group of students without any support of external >>> companies/organisations (Except IEEE). So you could understand that we are >>> just student volunteers and there is no financial gain of any sort in this >>> project. >>> >>> We would like to join hand with FOSS community in spreading the awareness >>> about free softwares among school students. We believe it would be of >>> immense value especially when the government has decided to use open source >>> technologies at school. Obviously we wont be needing sessions on advanced >>> topics, so anyone with experience using free softwares and and self >>> confidence are welcome. :) >>> >>> I have kept this mail brief because I dont know whether you will be >>> interested or not, but if anyone's interested we'll send you more details >>> and the reports of phase 1. The 60 schools have been divided in to 5 hubs >>> and in the second phase we'll be conducting programs at one center in each >>> HUB. We are also willing to give a presentation on Project Ignite in the >>> next FSUG's monthly meeting if required. We are also interested in a long >>> term relationship and would like to hear your suggestions regarding it. >>> >>> That's it for now, I hope the students will benefit from this initiative. >>> Some of us met with Hon.Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, and he was very supportive >>> about this. He has agreed to come for the inauguration of this project, and >>> we are trying to make that happen. So the Project is in Beta Phase now. Pls >>> let me know if you need more details, >>> >>> Looking forward to everyone's suggestions, >>> >> >> >> Thats a great program I hope. Like to know more details. >> -- >> Raru Rv >> +91 9633 9217 44 >> http://rarurv.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> "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 control your subscription visit >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe >> To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> >> >> For details visit the google group page: >> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en >> > > -- > "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 control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- "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 control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
