An interesting blog post that touches upon the same subject: and
serendipitously provides a very powerful reason for engineering colleges in
particular to be more aware of and to foster the environment of open
knowledge working.
http://manypossibilities.net/2011/12/everyday-internet-miracles/
I
Whenever Open Source activism and Indian colleges come up, I can't
help but point people to
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#shakthimaan-indian-challenge-of-floss-advocacy.
Is a good read, and is still relevant today.
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Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Vickram, your tone makes it look like everything is our fault.
We cannot switch over to Firefox/Linux for one simple reason.
Most students here are from a Rural background and won't be able to
adjust to new stuff. They had a tough time adjusting from Windows 7 to
XP when the rollback was done due
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
Vickram, your tone makes it look like everything is our fault.
We cannot switch over to Firefox/Linux for one simple reason.
Most students here are from a Rural background and won't be able to
adjust to
1. My college won't change. I've tried.
2. The nearest FOSS gang is at Coimbatore, two of them attended our
meetup last week. There is none in Sathyamangalam.
3. My lab admin has agreed to do a trial run for Linux, but only on a
few systems.
4. Why are we talking about FOSS here?
I'm sorry, I
I didn't get the feeling that Vickram is saying that it's your fault.
It's not possible and not desirable to force everybody to switch to a
different browser. It is possible, however, to educate people about
having a choice. That's what FOSS activism is about and that's how i
understand Vickram's
Pardon my intrusion on this thread, but within reason*, if any college or
other educational institution chooses to be 'proprietary only' (never mind
antediluvian - IE6? really? or is that an XP issue?) FOSSers are prepared
to take it up 'officially' with them, reminding them of the nation's
2011/12/14 Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com:
Pardon my intrusion on this thread, but within reason*, if any college or
other educational institution chooses to be 'proprietary only' (never mind
antediluvian - IE6? really? or is that an XP issue?) FOSSers are prepared to
take it up
