Re: banglinux & IT.COM is not needed for India

[Moorthi Sundarapandian <mspandian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Saravanan,

I like your proposal. I am in Boston, MA. So i will
not be able contribute my time in teaching, even
though i love that profession.

I would like to contribute some amount , if your
proposal is accepted by fellow ILUG members  and
implemented is some schools meant for poor/under
previlaged students.

-Moorthi
mspandian@xxxxxxxxx

--- M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
> 
> > However, there are three categories of people here
> that I can think
> > of.  (1) The knowledgeable (who know of free
> software) and who have
> > all the means to use that knowledge, (2) those who
> have all of the
> > basic amenities of life, who are educated and
> interested in computers
> > but who are ignorant of free software and (3)
> those who dont have the
> > basic amenities.  I think MKS's original post was
> targeted to the
> > second of the three categories.  The first kind
> already knows of free
> > software and the third category is beyond the
> scope of free software.
> > Only the middle remains.  The question is, does
> the second category
> > have access to computers?  If so what kind.  Who
> are responsible for
> > these comps.  Once these are answered I think one
> can deal with the
> > problem intelligently.
> 
> 
> No flame war pl.  My original intention is not even
> teaching free
> software.  Instead, teaching Basics of Computer,
> Internet, etc.., [Of course,
> you may say it is not ILUG job.  But partly ILUG can
> involve in these kind of
> activities - It's only my *humble* request not
> order].  All the problems we
> can't solve.  But why don't we contribute what we
> can ? [teaching].
> 
> If some strong organisation like ILUG support, we
> can get sponsor from mega
> companies (who are sponsoring Banglinux/IT.COM
> etc..,) to setup small lab (say
> atleast 5 assembled systems) in selected schools/or
> even one school to start
> with?  In all IITs and IISc, INTEL has sponsored
> several labs.  But for the
> poor schools who will sponsor without proper
> background support?  All that is
> needed is some background support to the poor
> schools.  In the worst case,
> each ILUG can support atleast one school in
> their/nearby district.  that way
> we can create atleast a dozen of resource centres
> across the country.  Most of
> the poor school management are really interested in
> such acvities.  Whenever
> somebody has some freetime (I am sure everybody will
> have atleast a couple of
> hours a month) they can goto resource centres and
> take seminars.
> 
> Say on an average of 25 members in a ILUG chapter,
> contributing 2 hrs. a month
> will comes around 50 hrs. per month is quite good.
> 
> Again it is purely a voluntary effort. *NO
> COMPULSION*
> 
> -- mks --
> 
> 
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