Could we start by approaching Government schools in Chennai and take permission to conduct sessions on FOSS during weekends? I wanted to know if there is any site which would provide FOSS and Linux quiz questions for high school students Thank You Anupama
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Arulalan T <arulal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Mr.Parin Sharma conducted FOSS workshop in school at Delhi. > > Is there any school running under FOSS in Chennai or Tamil Nadu? > > Shall we try to promote FOSS in chennai schools ? > > The following mail content is sent by Parin Sharma to iitdlug > regarding his experience on workshop in his school. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Parin Sharma <parin.sha...@gmail.com> > Date: 2010/7/9 > Subject: [...@iitd:8406] Back to my Alma mate with FOSS!! > To: iitd...@googlegroups.com, poster...@lug-iitd.posterous.com > > > Recently on 30th June 2010, I got an opportunity to give back > something to my school, my Alma mate with FOSS !! Below is a small > story how things started and went.... > > I had this thing in my mind for quite some time, schools are the > places where we are taught basic morals, etiquette, sharing things, > knowledge and other good things but unfortunately most of the Schools > in India teach Proprietary software like MS Windows, Office and other > Adobe stuff like Flash etc. so was the case with my school, DAV > CPS[1], Paschim Enclave, New Delhi. So I talked to Anand Wardhan sir, > one of the best teachers, I have met in my life!! Although, he is an > Economics teacher but still he understood my point when I told him > about FOSS Stuff and he immediately agreed for a workshop in School. > So it was 30th June, the day I was eagerly waiting for but was a bit > nervous too because it was for teachers!! OMG, now I had to present > something to teachers to who taught me some years back but I knew it > will be good!! So it was 11:45, and I started, first telling about > FOSS history and then its advantages, then SchoolOS[2] but since I had > just 1hr or so, I had to quickly jump to the Demo Educational > FOSS....I started with Maths S/w like Kig then showed Chemistry tools > and I tried to show almost every subject related FOSS but as always I > fell short of time and had to wind up my presentation showing FET and > Dia Diagram Editor, but as a start, it was enough, the teachers were > all smiling, blessing me!! It was a wonderful experience.... many > teacher in particular my chem teacher asked me to install BKChem and > other chem S/w asap because she found them really helpful! Overall it > was awesome but this is not it, I want things to get implemented asap, > want students and teachers to use FOSS!! Looking forward to it...All I > wanna tell everyone reading this, seriously its a beautiful experience > doing something for your school, your people!! Try it this summer go > back to your previous schools and tell them about Freedom that you get > when you use FOSS, so that the next gen coming can live in a pure Free > World! > > [1] My School's Website - http://davschoolpemn.org > > [2] SchoolOS - http://schoolos.org > > > > You can also view/download my presentation from: > http://www.slideshare.net/parinsharma/fos-sintro-presdav > > Original Post at http://bit.ly/ble0wH > > -- > Parin Sharma > http://twitter.com/FOSSmaniac > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > > > > -- > Regards, > Arulalan.T > > Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks ! > http://kanchilug.wordpress.com > > My Experiments In Linux are here > http://tuxcoder.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
