Hi, We represent a social organization. We develop free educational softwares for the school children.
We are very glad to give you information about the current event happening in the Dhule district. Dhule district is located in Maharashtra state. There are around 583 ZP primary schools in Dhule. As a major decision, Dhule ZP had decided to bring computer education in the primary schools. So they have provided 2 computers for every primary school. After this they started with the teacher's computer training. The training period is 12 full days for each batch. I am very glad to inform you that ZP Dhule shown interest in our open source CD "Sanganak Saksharata Abhiyaan" and they have purchased total 583 CDs i.e. one for each teacher. It is our responsibility to give demonstration to the school teachers and train them to install this CD on their computers. This demonstration and training is started in the month of Jan 2007 and expected to end by the end of April 2007. Already we have trained around 300 teachers. Every teacher will be given one copy of our open source CD and the teacher is supposed to install this CD in his school. Our CD comprises the following: 1) Open Office 2) Open Office Marathi User Guide 3) Educational Games (GCompris: http://gcompris.net) 4) CLM (Computer Literacy Movement) software. You can download these contents from http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html Thus we are spreading open source concept in the Dhule district. The project is going very smooth. The response is also very good. And by the end of April 2007, we expect to complete the training of all 583 school teachers. I may also add here that the Dhule is the first district in Maharashtra, which is perfomring such large scale trachers training. Since, this model is successful, the state government is willing to replicate the same model in all districts of the state. Naturally, they have agreed to use our open source CDs in all districts of the state. I think its a major achievement for open source community. If you want to give us any inputs please feel free to do that. Thanks. With Regards, Anand Kulkarni Sarvangin Vikas Sanstha Pune http://www.svs.org.in 9422515760(M) 020-24327450(Ph) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
