[Ilugc] [survey] Institutional Support for Free Software
- From: cyborg4k@xxxxxxxxx (Shakthi Kannan)
- Date: Sun Mar 13 00:09:04 2005
Hi,
--- Ramanraj K <ramanraj.k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Intellectual honesty is notionally, the highest at
Universities.
In India? Tell me about it.
If you take a class of 40 final year students and
check their thesis document, how many of theirs will
be original authentic documentation? How many of them
do you think would have copied "paragraphs" from other
sources?
They
have considerable academic freedom, and the
infrastructure required for
doing research and development.
How many UG engineering students in India publish
papers?
Eligible students
are paid stipends,
scholarships or other grants for their work.
Maybe in IITs, RECs. What about other
universities/colleges?
Many Universities are already researching and trying
out ways of
providing institutional support for free software:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/talks/rahtz/html/
Sure, in the UK.
http://www.isr.uci.edu/research-open-source.html
http://opensource.mit.edu/home.html
=> Research papers, etc. on this subject
Sure, in the US.
http://www.chennailug.org
ilugc is easily an example of institutional support
for free software.
Yes. You can count in India. That is one out of how
many?
Whereas, Institutions
have goals like
"making provisions for advancement and dissemination
of knowledge, to
manage institutes of research, to organise labs,
libraries and other
equipment for research work, to institute
professorships, teaching posts
etc., to confer degrees etc." in the larger
interests of the general
public, and are governed by legislative Acts.
I accept all your statements if you talk about
universities/colleges in the
US/UK/Germany/Australia/Japan... But, if you take
India, and Tamil Nadu, in particular, we are still
following an old Anna University syllabus that doesn't
even come close to what the industry is working on.
And we are doing workshops and trying our best to
create the awareness among
faculty/management/students, and involve them in free
software projects both from a career perspective and
for education. Whether we will see a large-scale
contribution from them is yet to be seen.
Regards,
K Shakthi
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