Forwarded FYI! (Didn't know NCERT had something like this going on!) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jaijit Bhattacharya <jai...@dms.iitd.ac.in> Date: Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:36 PM Subject: [fosscom] [Fwd: NCERT Operating System] To: netw...@lists.fosscom.in
All, It would be really helpful if some of you could impress upon NCERT to adopt Open source in the curriculum and to do teacher training in open source. The view of the new Director for ICT enabled education, Dr Sharma, is that FOSS is an added layer of complexity on top of ICT. Any help at this stage would be much appreciated. Thanks Jaijit -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NCERT Operatin System Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:16:09 +0530 From: Ritu ghosh <ritu.gh...@knowledgecommons.in> To: Jaijit Bhattacharya <jai...@dms.iitd.ernet.in> Jaijit, The NCERT Desktop also referred as NCERT OS has completed its first phase and has been installed in the Lab of NCERT at Delhi. This Lab is used to conduct the training programs for teachers and employees of various state boards. The NCERT operating system is collaborative effort of IIT Delhi and NCERT and is envisioned to be a collection of all relevant Free and Open Source software that is needed for a school student to follow the school curriculum, without the need to pay for expensive proprietary and poor quality software. It includes a Free/Open Source operating System and all additional educational open source software. In case the expert from the state boards get hands on experience working with the Open Source educational applications, along with their planned training schedule , it will be a significant step towards the future of the IT education in India. We can also distribute the copies of the installable version of this desktop to the participants for them to go back and familiarize themselves with this easy to use, robust and interactive learning medium. Should you require more details about the Desktop, please let us know. Looking forward to your inputs. Thanks & Regards Ritu Ghosh -- Sun Microsystems <http://www.sun.com> Jaijit Bhattacharya, PhD Country Director, Government Strategy Asia South and India Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd. The Capital Court, Olof Palme Marg, 5th Floor, R Wing, Munirka New Delhi - 110 067 Direct: (91) 11 4219 1089 Board: (91) 11 4219 1100 Fax: (91) 11 2616 0928 -- Network mailing list netw...@lists.fosscom.in http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
