On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > PLUG meeting for September 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 5th > September 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR > > These are the details: > Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. > Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) > Time: 4 pm > > Agenda: > > Talk by Manjusha Joshi on Beamer. > > Discussions about Software Freedom Day activities. > > Any others. Feel free to suggest and/or give a talk/demo. > > You can book CD/DVDs and collect them after the meeting. Apart from > the older distros, the new ones like Fedora 11, Centos 5.3, Ubuntu > 9.04, Mandriva 2009 Spring are available with us now. > > We have a few DRUPALCAMP T shirts available for Rs. 200/- each. You > can collect them at the > meeting. > > We will be accepting formal membership at the meeting. CD/DVDs will be > made available at the meeting. You can send your bookings to me and/or > Dexter. > > Kindly make yourself available for the meeting.
I also request you to also discuss and participate to create a proposal to Maharastra Govt for school education. We met the secretary yesterday. we are also counting on your help from all the GLUGS, particularly PLUG, I am attaching the report below: Also contribute to the Proposal we are going to submit to the Secretary, School Education, Maharastra Govt. the draft is being shaped at http://fosscomm.in/Interventions/ProposalForMaharastra. After Maharastra we will offer similar proposals to other Govts also. ---- Press Release A delegation of seven educationists and activists from Mumbai met the Secretary, School Education, Government of Maharashtra, Shri Sanjay Kumar, at the Mantralaya on 2nd September at 3pm. Their aim was to express their critique of the proposed agreement between the state and a multinational corporation in the area of ICTs in education and to offer an alternative based of Free and Open Source Software. The attached representation (PDF) was submitted to him by the group, who consisted of : Nagarjuna G., Free Software Foundation, India Padma Sarangapani, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Ravi Subramaniam, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR J T de Souza GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai Chandita Mukherjee, Comet Media Foundation Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay and Sahana Murthy, IIT Bombay. During the meeting, the Secretary informed the delegation that the State government is aware of the pitfalls of working with corporates and is willing to consider alternatives approaches to introducing ICTs in education on a large scale, if any group proposes them. The Govt, he said, will work with all interested parties and will be inclusive in their approach. When told that in the current Maharashtra standard 8 text book, for example, there are brand names mentioned in the text and logos shown in the illustrations, he said that their department does not interfere with textbook content, since that is looked after by the experts of the Maharastra Text Book Bureau. When we suggested that it was the Education Department's role to set policy guidelines, such as not to carry brand names, the Secretary agreed with this in in principle. We suggested that we can help in (i) designing a curriculum for students that focusses on broad concepts from ICT that help develop thinking skills, as well as specific usage skills, (ii) writing books that can implement this curriculum, in a vendor-neutral manner, (iii) designing curriculum for teachers and iv) implementing teacher training programmes After listening to the delegation, the Secretary asked us to submit a proposal to contribute to the effective dissemination of ICT skills within the school system in Maharashtra . The team agreed to do this within two weeks and to subsequently explore possibilities of reaching an MoU with the Government of Maharashtra. We will keep you posted as the story develops. -- Dr. Nagarjuna G. Chairperson, Free Software Foundation of India, Reader, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd. Mumbai India, 400088 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
