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

["Poorna Prasad" <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I like the idia.

I was conducted computer classes in my room (I have 2 systems) for poor
students.

I can give training.

Poorna prasad.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sreeji K Das <bksys@xxxxxxxx>
To: Indian Linux User Group - Chennai <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: banglinux & IT.COM is not needed for India


> Hi folks
>
> Sorry for being a bit late on this topic. I endorse the view of mks & I'd
> be happy to participate in any effort to provide computer awareness
> (rather than just GNU/Linux awareness) to the poor students of
> govt. schools (ofcourse in my freetime !). I request folks on this list to
> respond & let's hope we'd get something going soon !
>
> Sreeji
>
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, M K Saravanan wrote:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:26:41 +0530 (IST)
> > From: M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [LIG] [ot - sort of] spammer bites the dust (goodbye
gtcdrom.
> >     com)
> >
> > Sorry it may be OFFTOPIC to the Linux group.  But in reality, the word
> > Internet itself, is unknown to most of the Indian.  Usually whenever i
get
> > some free time (mostly in sundays) i will go to some govt. schools or
other
> > colleges and voluntarily take (awareness) seminars on Internet.  During
these
> > time, i have just wondered how ignorant are my fellow countrymen about
> > Internet.  The condition is very worst in non-metropolitan cities within
the
> > state.  For e.g. if you go to places like thanjavur, tuticorin,
tirunelveli,
> > they will simply laugh at you if you tell about Internet because they
don't
> > even have proper computer facilities intheir colleges.  Telephone
services are
> > still worst.  Most of the college students in these places even don't
know how
> > to copy a file in a floppy (well you may say that 9 year old guy is
doing
> > linux installation - but my dear countrymen, pl. look the rest of the
people
> > also).
> >
> > It will be nice, if ILUG take some initiative ona regular basis (say
weekly or
> > monthly) to conduct Internet aware seminars particularly to govt.
schools and
> > colleges (really you don't believe, lot of young poor brilliant guys are
there
> > in govt. schools waiting for some mentor to guide them).  If we are able
to
> > co-ordinate allthese young chaps, we can achieve a lot in India itself.
Those
> > who are having your old 286/386 can donate them to the schools so that
they
> > can load somebasic software like BASIC, C Program etc..,
> >
> > REally speaking Banglinux and IT.COM are not needed for the 90% of the
Indian,
> > all they need is to start them, to initiate them with basic stuff
(especially
> > poor govt. schools and colleges) and some minimum support fromthe
computer
> > gurus.  I strongly believe that ILUG can contribute a lot to achieve
this
> > goal.
> >
> > -- mks --
> >
>
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