Re: [ilugd] M.Sc. CS-FOSS online distance education programme

2013-03-21 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Biju Balakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > cant find the syllabus. > Who is the programme for? > what all will be covered? > > would like to get these insights before even looking into it. > *Biju > * > Pl visit 115.249.106.147/mscfoss/ and the menu items on curricula and sy

Re: [ilugd] Shocking and Sad news.

2012-12-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
sudden and shocking. raj mathur and gora mohanty were my main links with ilug-d. though i have not been interacting much, i was planning to call on them when BOSS 5.0 gets released and interact with all re govt tenders, school projects. as narendra said, first KG and now Raj. while we can't fill t

[ilugd] Robot programming in CBSE international curriculum

2012-04-30 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, CBSE has introduced the chapter "Programming a Robo" in their international curriculum for IX & X, with the following topics : 1. ROBO Assembly 2. Programming a ROBO 3. TeProgramming a Robosting & debugging. 4. Prepare your ROBO Manual with applications. The learning objectives are : Assem

[ilugd] FOSS in Indian University curricula

2010-04-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends : as you might be aware, NRCFOSS worked with Anna Univ to get two FOSS electives in the curriculum since 2006. So far, about 3000 students have taken the courses successfully in B.E. (Comp Science), B.Tech (Information Technology) and MCA. Anna Univ Coimbatore will be having FOSS as c

Re: [ilugd] AICTE, FOSS and us

2010-04-06 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear mohit: i agree that AICTE and other teams are generally happy with proprietary software, and more often than not FOSS is not acknowledged. However, there are a few trying to bring the FOSS culture (Dr. Sivakumar, Dr. Phatak, Dr. Prabhu Ramachandran, etc. of IIT Mumbai, Dr. Om Vikas and Dr. Man

Re: [ilugd] Possible Workshop at NIT Jaipur

2009-11-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Nandeep Mali wrote: > Hi, > > An update on this. There was almost nil response (in fact just one) > for speakers for this event. But we will still be going ahead with the > workshop with the help of LUG-Jaipur members. It will be a hands on > workshop with only c

Re: [ilugd] BOSS on ILUGD list -- sharing a few thoughts

2009-09-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Kartik Mistry wrote: > > 4. Indian language localisation : The .po files files, keyboard layouts, > > etc., are available at http://downloads.bosslinux.in/Localisation/ > > Are you ready to take feedback (positive or negative)? > > i am looking at two action steps,

Re: [ilugd] BOSS on ILUGD list -- sharing a few thoughts

2009-09-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > This is great, and I for one am glad to see the BOSS Linux team > interacting with the community on a peer basis. Hope this can help move > both BOSS and FOSS (pun unintended) in India forward. > > thanks. BOSS was the mandate for NRCFOSS Pha

Re: [ilugd] BOSS on ILUGD list -- sharing a few thoughts

2009-09-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: would like to share some thoughts -- with you, and thru you with ILUG-D members -- in the light of the exchanges at ILUG-D on BOSS. I wouldn't put this as a clarification or official response, but more as an exchange of information / perspective. I hope this will lead to cohesion & contrib

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-31 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: am thankful to satyaakam for drawing my attention to the ILUG-D discussion thread on this topic. since i am a new entrant to the list, i hope you will bear with me for starting this as a new msg, instead of reply to the existing thread. would like to share the following brief info about th