Dear Mr. Raman, I can understand your position and I greatly appreciate the efforts you have taken to spread the importance open source software.There are few things which I want to discuss here. Our academic system is too narrow minded making the students to learn the subject only for scoring marks in the sem exams(even in higher education) and not to learn by experience(taking up project, class discussion).Over the years it has created an image among student community that doing projects is waste of time..so they have lost interest in these kind of activities.Having said that I know few people who come from different background like Biotech ,chemical they are greatly interested in programming(linux.etc) again under parental pressure they were forced to take streams which they have no interest and pursuing them only for a job in IT field..So there are lot many factors which makes the students to shy away from doing projects especially in open source...
Students of my age in other countries especially in US and EU have contributed a lot for open source but we (majority of engineering students in India) dont even know what is GPL..:-) this is current scenario...Slowly this trend is changing but at snail's space.Only thing we could do is to use whatever resource we have to make the knowledge available for the students by recording lectures and in many other ways.Let the interested students use those resources and come up with good projects(remember when we have a workshop in Chennai it doesnt mean that an aspiring linux beginner in a not so famous engineering college of remote India will be able to utilize the resource )So please divert your efforts in making the resource available for the greater mass and not just concentrate around certain pockets of the student community).I am in no position to judge about the quality of the efforts you have taken to spread the knowledge but I am only sharing my thoughts with you. Cheers, Sri Hari From: Raman.P <raam...@yahoo.co.in> To: ILUG-C <ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in> Sent: Tue, 20 April, 2010 9:09:55 AM Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Kind Request to the Workshop Organisers --- On Mon, 19/4/10, sri kumaran <cyberdyne_ind...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: sri kumaran <cyberdyne_ind...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Kind Request to the Workshop Organisers > To: "ILUG-C" <ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in> > Date: Monday, 19 April, 2010, 7:54 PM > Dear Mr. Jeyanthan, > Sorry > for that comma error ..Uploading of slides will be useful > but videos are more important for students like us who are > new to this field.It may be the reason why most of the > universities have started uploading videos of lectures and > not only the slides and notes.NPTEL has been doing a really > good job!! We at ILUGC can do a tutorial every week if you want. But where are the students you are talking about? Everytime we try - remember weekly GNU Vidyashram started by Sakthi- the response was very poor. This is the reason why we want others to organise and ILUGC provides only the technical resource. However, we are willing to retry weekly tutorial if there are atleast 10 students in each session. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc