On 11/3/2011 11:00 AM, Manokaran K wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, technocraze<[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I wish, LUGC could research more on this and propose solutions. >> >> > You have succinctly captured our fundamental problem: we would like some > one else to solve our problems - do the ground work, analyze and propose a > few options so we can easily pick one and implement it :-) > > The much derided college education system is only a reflection of the > larger issues in our society! > > Don't get me wrong, am as much in the same boat as you!
I am already doing this for the past 3 years, at the individual capacity.. and today, i have around 5 persons whom i trained supporting me. and i had networked with few like minded people in my region. As an individual, i could only do what is possible in my surrounding and environment. Why i called in ILUGC is, to create a systematic decentralised framework, to bring in a change at the state level. In my understanding, we dont have a direction. We cannot expect student to learn all by themselves, to search for themselves a suitable open source project and then to join it. Because, they lack the basic essential skills. There are around 600 engineering college in tamilnadu alone. I believe, atleast 100 of them would have good facilities. If we could make atleast two or three students in each of these selected 100 college to participate in an open source project, we would be having atleast 200 students from tamilnadu alone contributing to open source. But we dont have that big initiative. Only Linux Baskar from this group has covered most colleges in tamilnadu in installing open source labs, which is mindblowing. Why not we utilise his network for bringing the next push? PS: When some one puts forth a suggestion, please dont bang on him asking "What have you done".. Focus on the idea being suggested. Regards, Senthil _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
