[Ilugc] Some of my views
Friends I am new to this group. I am working in a engineering college from 2000 onwards as a admin. I tried to implement linux from 2005 onwards. But at the time lot of difficulties i faced from the staff side. Now the things are changed. Students are most aware about open source. I heard about NRC-FOSS which is funded by central government. They have to support colleges. But I dont know now they are working r not? As per the AICTE norms engineering colleges may use open source software. But the AICTE committee people not aware about open source. It is their(NRC-FOSS) duty to educate the committee people about open source If approached NRC-FOSS There is no proper answer. I went NRC-FOSS directly and i was really shocked to see a big LCD display which is working on windows. S.Annamalai ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Some of my views
Friends I am new to this group. I am working in a engineering college from 2000 onwards as a admin. I tried to implement linux from 2005 onwards. But at the time lot of difficulties i faced from the staff side. Now the things are changed. Students are most aware about open source. I heard about NRC-FOSS which is funded by central government. They have to support colleges. But I dont know now they are working r not? As per the AICTE norms engineering colleges may use open source software. But the AICTE committee people not aware about open source. It is their(NRC-FOSS) duty to educate the committee people about open source If approached NRC-FOSS There is no proper answer. I went NRC-FOSS directly and i was really shocked to see a big LCD display which is working on windows. S.Annamalai ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
On 12 October 2010 13:15, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > basker is there - on a shoe string budget he is doing more than NRC-FOSS Motivated individuals like basker are a great asset to the community :) > has been able to do with all the central government crores! (and do not > take this as a criticism of NRC-FOSS - govt/univ bodies are constrained, > motivated individuals can do much more. +1 , All we as outsiders need to remember that the more we cry/shout on Govt/univ organisations/bodies the more we would be alienating them . The best we could do is to see if we could help them come closer to the community . Try personally emailing them twice before we bring the issue to a mailing list . Good that you have taken initiative to go to that place , well ' windows ' a propreitary OS is not IMHO a huge 'Hall of Shame' kind of thing ,but did you see how many free softwares that windows had installed? Some people still use the propreitary windows because of their comfort levels in using a distro /environment . But I think with proper guidance and our(community) efforts in explaining the importance and values of free software , things might change . Lets hope to hear more from them and collaborate more from them . >All we can do is give initial > seeds. Well Syllabus change and good support by NRCFOSS AUKBC to the events in and around tamilnadu with a strong ILUGC backing did rock chennai in terms of FOSS :) Well NRCFOSS AUKBC has planted a seed called 'FOSSCONF' , would love to see the tree and the fruits :) Let all of us pour some water and give it some sunshine ! Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:53 AM, pavithran wrote: > On 12 October 2010 13:15, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> basker is there - on a shoe string budget he is doing more than NRC-FOSS > > Motivated individuals like basker are a great asset to the community :) > Consider it in the light of the fact that his so called FOSS Lab Server was "borrowed/stolen" from the FOSS lab server developed by NRCFOSS !!! Regards, Common Man ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:29 +0530, Common Man wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:53 AM, pavithran > wrote: > > On 12 October 2010 13:15, Kenneth Gonsalves > wrote: > >> basker is there - on a shoe string budget he is doing more than > NRC-FOSS > > > > Motivated individuals like basker are a great asset to the > community :) > > > Consider it in the light of the fact that his so called FOSS Lab > Server was "borrowed/stolen" from the FOSS lab server developed by > NRCFOSS !!! before making false statements like this, please verify your facts. The two are very different. -- 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
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
Hi, On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> > >> Consider it in the light of the fact that his so called FOSS Lab >> Server was "borrowed/stolen" from the FOSS lab server developed by >> NRCFOSS !!! > > before making false statements like this, please verify your facts. The > two are very different. Even if they had been same, using words like "borrowed" or "stolen" don't make sense here(free software world). After all, he has been setting up FOSS labs. -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. Mail: benignb...@gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 22:21 +0530, Anna malai wrote: > I am new to this group. I am working in a engineering college from > 2000 > onwards as a admin. I tried to implement linux from 2005 onwards. But > at the > time lot of difficulties i faced from the staff side. > > Now the things are changed. Students are most aware about open source. > > I heard about NRC-FOSS which is funded by central government. They > have to > support colleges. But I dont know now they are working r not? they are working > > As per the AICTE norms engineering colleges may use open source > software. > But the AICTE committee people not aware about open source. not true - this year in Coimbatore AICTE gave recognition to one college which had pure foss in it's lab > > It is their(NRC-FOSS) duty to educate the committee people about open > source which we have done > > If approached NRC-FOSS There is no proper answer. how did you approach? > I went NRC-FOSS directly > and i was really shocked to see a big LCD display which is working on > windows. LCD displays do not work on windows - it must have been connected to a computer running windows. And what is your problem with this? NRC-FOSS is housed in the AU-KBC centre which also does a lot of work in proprietary software - so it is quite natural that they use windows. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
On 10/12/2010 09:15 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> I heard about NRC-FOSS which is funded by central government. They >> have to support colleges. But I dont know now they are working r not? I hope they are not expecting NRC-FOSS to setup labs for them for free. -- .o. I'm a Free man. I use Free Software. ..o ooo http://www.joesteeve.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:04 +0530, Joe Steeve wrote: > On 10/12/2010 09:15 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> I heard about NRC-FOSS which is funded by central government. They > >> have to support colleges. But I dont know now they are working r > not? > > I hope they are not expecting NRC-FOSS to setup labs for them for > free. basker is there - on a shoe string budget he is doing more than NRC-FOSS has been able to do with all the central government crores! (and do not take this as a criticism of NRC-FOSS - govt/univ bodies are constrained, motivated individuals can do much more. All we can do is give initial seeds. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
Hi, I am new to this group. Nice to see college admins joining and expressing their views in ILUGC. > I am working in a engineering college from 2000 > onwards as a admin. I tried to implement linux from 2005 onwards. But at > the > time lot of difficulties i faced from the staff side. > > Which college ? S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Some of my views
> As per the AICTE norms engineering colleges may use open source > > software. > > > But the AICTE committee people not aware about open source. > > not true - this year in Coimbatore AICTE gave recognition to one college > which had pure foss in it's lab > It's Suguna Spark Business School, Kallipalayam, Coimbatore (Now, I am here in the college to complete the full foss lab setup) Also, 3 months back I was here during AICTE inspection and AICTE committee people are aware about open source and also accepted, and they did not insist on any proprietary software/os. (Kenneth helped through NRC-FOSS by providing a letter to the college regarding this FOSS implementation) Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
