Re: [silk] rant - Re: Wanted: Exceptional parents

2008-04-11 Thread Charles Haynes
Madhu asks: > Charles, what exactly did "homeschooling" involve? Did you personally teach > them everything? Hired private tutors? I'm curious. My wife taught them most subjects, but we also had access to classes taught at the local charter school and they took some of those classes. Deepa adds:

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 45, Issue 24

2008-04-11 Thread va
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Mayank Dhingra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, erm... there are girls (women, if you must) on this list too... /me waves :) > Remember reading about a meetup in bangalore, has anything been finalized ? > > I'll be in Bangalore on coming 19th and 20t

Re: [silk] parenting, which school to send the kid to etc ..

2008-04-11 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:39 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > At least we don't have to decide which gang the kid is going to join, eh? isn't that what schools are :-) as deepa wrote: >would want my child to have all the interaction with peers (including >pressure) and the formation of life

Re: [silk] p2p? nah! - was Re: Wanted: Exceptional parents

2008-04-11 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:11 +0530, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote: > What we need to do is to make the child blossom on its own, giving it > a good environment, choices, and feedback as parents and as folks not > interested in Dgeneration . As the Godfather2 dialogue goes - it is > difficult, but not imp

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-11 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
hi there are a few case studies at publicsectoross.info, and some more (you'll have to search a bit) at http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/oso On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:10 +0300, ashok _ wrote: > I am looking for examples where governments have developed their > internal systems in an open source model.

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 45, Issue 24

2008-04-11 Thread Mayank Dhingra
Hi Guys, Sorry for the late introduction. I am an E&C engineer from D.C.E working as a software developer for Mpower Mobile Systems, Delhi. Got to know about Silklist from Ram. Remember reading about a meetup in bangalore, has anything been finalized ? I'll be in Bangalore on coming 19th and

Re: [silk] Copying is Good: Different is not better

2008-04-11 Thread ss
On Friday 11 Apr 2008 10:28:44 am Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I recommend reading the document in its entirety. > > [1] ftp://download.intel.com/technology/itj/q41998/pdf/copyexactly.pdf I certainly will Udhay - but I can't resist the following comment: > Setting up a fab is so expensive (the

Re: [silk] Google Apps email spam filter

2008-04-11 Thread ashok _
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Did you have an irc kiddy playing games, or did you get a hacked php / cgi > script sending spam etc around that time? > > possibly the latter... restart, restore of the mailman settings, restore of the MTA seems to have sorted it

Re: [silk] p2p? nah! - was Re: Wanted: Exceptional parents

2008-04-11 Thread va
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's one of the few things that parents think they have some control over. Folks with grey strands (difficult to spot with hair coloring being the rage an all) opine that they dont have any control over anything, much les

Re: [silk] parenting, which school to send the kid to etc ..

2008-04-11 Thread Dave Long
At least we don't have to decide which gang the kid is going to join, eh? Wasn't that the basic point of this thread: influencing the kid to remain in the "people like us" gang? -Dave

[silk] parenting, which school to send the kid to etc ..

2008-04-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
At least we don't have to decide which gang the kid is going to join, eh? http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15851623/detail.html Police: Couple Feuds Over Toddler's Gang 19-Year-Old Arrested, Pleads Guilty To Disorderly Conduct POSTED: 8:35 pm MDT April 10, 2008 COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A coup

Re: [silk] rant - Re: Wanted: Exceptional parents

2008-04-11 Thread Danese Cooper
I'm sure Charles will have his own answer, but allow me to comment generally on the homeschool movement in the US. Many, many parents have opted to pull their kids out of school in the US to pursue a course of education outside of the traditional school options of "public or private". They

Re: [silk] rant - Re: Wanted: Exceptional parents

2008-04-11 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Deepa Mohan wrote, [on 4/11/2008 12:16 PM]: She herself joined the list just a little while ago I am curious,how many parent/child members are there on this list? Udhay, can you shed some light on this? Must be quite a few, I guess. Actually, you/Anjana are the only such pair that I know of.