[Ilugc] 2 day FOSS workshop for faculty in the Kongu region
- From: asprakash83@xxxxxxxxx (Prakash Srinivasan)
- Date: Thu Aug 7 10:29:46 2008
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
we want to re-orient the syllabus - that is the goal of NRC-FOSS, and the
big stumbling block are the lecturers. Management want it, students want it,
but lecturers are blocking it. So we are trying to get a few lecturers
excited about foss - and very very few of these ever write code.
Recently [last week] we conducted a TTP in Anna University, Trichy. The same
thing happened here also. Very few only came out of all trichy surrounding
areas. In other words, I can say, the no of speakers were more compare with
participants.
I would like to share an participant's feedback with all of you. "In our
college we have an allowance scheme like if I will participate this type of
workshop, then our college will give 500/- for me. I came just for getting
my allowance".
How is it. But at the same time some others were really interested in FOSS
and Linux.
Its happening in all the TTP. The staff's only argument is, "why we want to
learn a topic from out of syllabus". Still FOSS is an elective paper. They
will not take it as seriously until it will be one of the main subject in
their curriculum. Otherwise FOSS will be just optional. So try to make it
as a compulsory paper to the final year students.
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