Help needed with Linux in school

headers சிவகுமார் மா | 12 May 06:07

Friends,

The mail was typed in by me when I was in Vilupuram on May 12, 2008 to
participate in a Valaipadhivar Pattarai.

We helped the participants to create Email accounts, blogger accounts and
learn to read and write in Tamil. Towards the end of the day, I started
talking about Tamil operating systems and brought up Linux.

Atleast half a dozen persons immediately started showing interest. Mr.
Senthil is one of them.

Schools have received computers, no one to teach them how to use. They want
to install Windows if possible. The department says, you do whatever you
want, we will not question. But the teachers are not taking any risks. In
many places computers are kept unused.

I am sure similar conditions prevail in other parts of the state also. I
suggested to Mr. Senthil to send a mail to ILUGC and typed the gp message
from his email account (newly created).

Mr. Senthil promised that he will arrange a meeting of teachers from all the
schools in the area for a training session. I have suggested that we can
solve their problems in one or two sittings and get the computers working in
the schools.

I am not sure, whether he is conversant with emails and mailing list
communications. We need to do something before the new school year begins.

Best regards,

Ma Sivakumar

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon <at> thenilgiris.com>
wrote:

>
> On 11-May-08, at 10:53 PM, Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
>
>  On 5/11/08, sen kumar <jaisent08 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am a teacher in a government school in Viluppuram. We have
>>>> received computers with Linux installed
>>>>
>>>
>>  Being may, Its likely that all schools around will be having
>>> Holidays. Will it be possible for you to convene a meeting of all
>>>
>>
>> It is very difficult to convince every-one to come to single place
>> on holiday that too with-out TA,DA, ...:) My suggection is invite
>> the OP to NRC-FOSS to spend few days over there to understand the
>> basics of "SUSE" Distro.
>>
>
> NRC-FOSS could supply some TA-DA
>
> --
>
> regards
> kg
> http://lawgon.livejournal.com
> http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/
>
>
>
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