> > FOSS awareness means what topics will be discussed > > * What is FOSS ? (including the history of GNU (by RMS) and Linux (by Linus Torvalds) and make them clearly understand what is GNU and what is Linux and why it should be called GNU/Linux than just Linux)
as steve elaborated in detail at http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2010-August/060028.html Thanks steve * Difference between Proprietary Softwares and FOSS (licensing issues) * Why FOSS for education? www.apdip.net/publications/*foss*eprimers/*foss*-edu.pdf Why FOSS for Education? Lower Costs Reliability, Performance and Security Build Long-term Capacity Open Philosophy Encourage Innovations Alternative to Illegal Copying Possibility of Localization Learning from Source Code * Start using GNU/Linux Operating System in less than 3 minutes (Demo using Linux Mint-9 Live DVD to open word/pdf documents, play videos, get connected to internet, accessing USB devices and so on) * Making a student to install Ubuntu /Linux-Mint in simple 7 steps. * Intro to all major apps. in GNU/Linux with comparison to Windows apps. * Playing videos of Truth Happens, BigBuckBunny, Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense Technology * Showing Marble / Compiz 3D / CairoDock OpenGL effects (this alone attracts many students towards GNU/Linux) * Activities of ILUG-C and how to join in the list. * Setup a FOSS lab (a minimum of 60 computers) in the college using Fedora-13 (We install about 4225 packages in all the computers using kickstart method and ask the students to work on it for sometime and explore the FOSS world) * Finally distribute few bunch of various distro DVDs (mostly live DVDs) and ask them to share among themselves. Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
