On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 10:51 +0100, Aanjhan R wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Baskar Selvaraj <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It was a surprise that, the dept. faculties spent more than 3 hours > > experimenting with many of the foss tools like Codeblocks (c/c++ > ide), > > netbeans, Gambas (visual basic clone), mysql and later on I told > them > > about creating video tutorials by capturing the desktop activities > > Not to be cynical. But just wondering - In all your previous 100+ > FOSSlab setups the faculty never spent time experimenting with the > tools for more than 3 hrs? Seriously?
if you look at Baskars posts you will see frequent mention of faculty development programs - what has happened is that AU Coimbatore from this semester on insists on these two electives, and the faculty has realised that like it or not, they have to teach it. > > And this brings to the topic someone raised earlier (may be > Sankarshan). What are the followups to all these FOSSLab setups? > Setting up a lab and in 2 months it being replaced is not FUN. all these setups are being done by the college managements and they are paying cash money for them - once money is paid, they value the investment. There is a company that offers to setup a 60 seat FOSS lab for just 2.5L (from their brochure, it looks like they are not only charging for installation, but for the software also). So Baskar is very competitive and has captured the market. All the managements in the region are also aware that Suguna Spark Business School is the first College in the region (and possibly in the country) which has got AICTE recognition without spending 1 paisa on software (apart from the installation cost). Many universities and colleges in the region are also decided to move to FOSS in *all* departments - the only thing stopping them is the non-availability of FOSS alternatives in some areas. And as for follow ups, Coimbatore LUG is very much there - please see the pictures of the latest meeting where we combined a one day workshop on the syllabus topics with our meeting. The LUG meeting took place after the workshop - around 150 people attending. At the meeting the dean agreed - 1. to offer the college as a fallback location in case some college fails it its commitment, and 2 - to give OOD permission to any student who wants to attend a LUG meeting or workshop conducted by us (of course they asked for a certificate from us in each case to make sure the student has *actually* attended the meeting). Oh, and several students have approached us to help them prepare for GSoC ... -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
