Dear Mr. Raman,
I can understand your position and I greatly
appreciate the efforts you have taken to spread the importance open source
software.There are few things which I want to discuss here.
Our academic system is too narrow minded making the students to learn the
subject only for scoring marks in the sem exams(even in higher education) and
not to learn by experience(taking up project, class discussion).Over the years
it has created an image among student community that doing projects is waste of
time..so they have lost interest in these kind of activities.Having said that I
know few people who come from different background like Biotech ,chemical they
are greatly interested in programming(linux.etc) again under parental pressure
they were forced to take streams which they have no interest and pursuing them
only for a job in IT field..So there are lot many factors which makes the
students to shy away from doing projects especially in open source...
Students of my age in other countries especially in US and EU have contributed
a lot for open source but we (majority of engineering students in India) dont
even know what is GPL..:-) this is current scenario...Slowly this trend is
changing but at snail's space.Only thing we could do is to use whatever
resource we have to make the knowledge available for the students by recording
lectures and in many other ways.Let the interested students use those resources
and come up with good projects(remember when we have a workshop in Chennai it
doesnt mean that an aspiring linux beginner in a not so famous engineering
college of remote India will be able to utilize the resource )So please divert
your efforts in making the resource available for the greater mass and not just
concentrate around certain pockets of the student community).I am in no
position to judge about the quality of the efforts you have taken to spread the
knowledge but I am only sharing my
thoughts with you.
Cheers,
Sri Hari
From: Raman.P <raamanp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 20 April, 2010 9:09:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Kind Request to the Workshop Organisers
--- On Mon, 19/4/10, sri kumaran <cyberdyne_indiya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: sri kumaran <cyberdyne_indiya@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Kind Request to the Workshop Organisers
To: "ILUG-C" <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, 19 April, 2010, 7:54 PM
Dear Mr. Jeyanthan,
Sorry
for that comma error ..Uploading of slides will be useful
but videos are more important for students like us who are
new to this field.It may be the reason why most of the
universities have started uploading videos of lectures and
not only the slides and notes.NPTEL has been doing a really
good job!!
