On 07-Aug-08, at 10:29 AM, Prakash Srinivasan 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.