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+Five of us met at the 'My Tea House' near PESIT on Dec 10 2005 to discuss the future plans fo the FOSS EDU IN group. Some of the topics discussed are listed below
+==Meeting minutes==
+*Creation of a FOSS course material
+[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-non-tech/message/5891 1] Most universities in India (exceptions are IIT, IISc,
+RECs.) have a syllabi that is theory-based. Its just
+that the theory is not being put into practice. Rather
+than having to create new course material, what is
+really required is to show how to apply theory into
+the real world. For example, if you take the course
+CS378: Linux kernel programming by Prof. Yongguang
+Zhang at University of Austin, Texas:
+http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ygz/378-02S/
+and look at the grading:
+http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ygz/378-02S/course.html#grading
+% is alloted for practical work so you understand
+the theory and its application. But, in a majority of
+universities in India students just learn the theory
+and don't try it out in real-time, which is what you
+will be doing in the industry. So, this initiative
+should be taken by students, until the universities
+change the method of education.
+>>
+This course will not be for the universities (though that too is in the todo list). This one is to equip students to use and contribute to FOSS. This course will not be for the universities (though that too is in the todo list). This one is to equip students to use and contribute to FOSS. Like how to use CVS, development tools ....
+*Consortium for FOSS training
+  consortium -  a group of people, countries, companies, etc. who are working    together on a
+  particular project:
+*Building local communities in different campuses
+[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-non-tech/message/5891 1] All these exist in many colleges in the form of LUGS/FSUGS.
+>>
+Not in all the campuses. Even in many campuses that do have LUGS/FSUGS are not active. In PESIT it is just started, BMS inactive for long (MSRIT has a very active LUG, it was inactive for a log time).
+*A GNUsletter on to update every months activities.
+[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-non-tech/message/5891 1] All these exist in the Internet in one form or
+another. Its just that students are not aware of
+these.
+In a class of 40-60 so-called "engineering students",
+only 6-8 students are really interested in doing
+engineering. The system doesn't motivate the others
+into learning new things.
+<gossip>
+A friends' friend of mine, working in Mentor Graphics,
+said he stopped going to Bangalore, because he said
+that I have to explain the problem to Indian
+graduates, discuss possible solutions. and then they
+come up with a solution. He has started going to
+Shanghai because he says that he only has to give the
+problem to the Chinese, and they can solve it
+immediately.
+</gossip>
+*Creation of technical content
+*Selecting FOSS projects which students can take up as academic projects
+*Broadband internet for students
+This was a very interesting point. As high speed internet connection is a must for foss development we should offer it for interested students as scholarships (comapnies like Redhat/Novell/Google/HP/IBM .... can offer it -- It costs just Rs 250 per month per student)
+*FOSS centeres in colleges (Eg: IITB) in association with companies were students get all the facilities for foss development.
+*FOSS campaigns in schools
+As most of the colleges are having exam season we are looking for schools in the mean time as targets. We hope to have some seminars in schools in Bangalore in the coming months.
+* Another interesting project is for a VCD shop in Ulsoor
+[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-technical/message/21791 Here is a link to the discussion]
+[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-non-tech/message/5891 1] Shakthi Kannan responding in BLUG mailing list
+==Discussion happened in the Mailing List==
 Tomorrow (Dec 10 2005) 3.00pm is the FOSS-EDU meet at (PESIT) Tea House. Its near
 DevegowdaPetrol Bunk a few meters from Sagar Apollo Clinic. There is a
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 (This solves the first problem)
-[http://lists.wikicities.com/pipermail/fci-l/2005-December/000037.html -->'ed comments from Sandesh Kamth, SJCE Mysore]
+[http://lists.wikicities.com/pipermail/fci-l/2005-December/000037.html -->'ed comments from Sandesh Kamath, SJCE Mysore]
 (any thing else ?)
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