> > First of all, i welcome this initiative of setting up exclusive foss lab.
Thanks. > I > have few thoughts to share here.. > > - Setting up a foss lab should NOT be an end in itself. Our initiative of setting up FOSS lab is just a begining, and also to mark an end for the proprietary software in technical/engineering education. > Is there any > result oriented projects planned? > could you explain, what you mean result oriented projects? > - FOSS should NOT be confined within a lab. Rather, we should explore > how we can use foss applications for day to day use of the college life. > eg: intranet mail servers, intranet wiki, intranet forums, intranet > blogs, > a knowledge repository,, Please excuse me, if these are already done in > your college. (In my observation most colleges dont even have an > intranet > mail server). > Few engg. colleges/universities have already got and other colleges to follow soon. (Most of the engg. colleges will have the above setup very soon). - There should institutional mechanism, where the department consistently > works on a FOSS project, irrespective of students studying. ie, students > should learn and contribute for the project, and when before he gets > passed > out, he has to train the incoming students.. by this way, we can > generate > continous pool of resources to work on any FOSS related projects. > - There are many issues where Linux based machines could not be > integrated to a windows network. (this is one of the reason why windows > servers are preferred over linux).. Colleges can work on these issues > with > colloboration from corporates. > > why corporates, can't a Small / Medium Business do that? Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
