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On Day 2 [http://foss.in/2005 FOSS.IN] 11 of us met up on H1 of FOSS vilage  and discussed various issues on Education (There was another parellel BoF going on in the Indic Computing BoF too). We had Sandesh Barve (Retired Principal of Nasic Engineering college), Sandesh Kamath, Vikas (both from SJCE Mysore), Shanker Balan, Philip tellis, Swaroop CH (from Yahoo!), Ragavan Srinivasan, myself(Hewlett Packard), Venky (Redhat), Aneesh, Michael.  

Shanker Balan was of the opinion that giving the foss tools in product for defeats the purpose of teching the new technology. He used his experience as an example, when he taught linux 5.2 to many and showed them a different version, they were not ready to accept it.  

We had to make a choce whtherto target Teachers or students in this initiative. We had very interesting observations at this point. Venky said it is a challenge to target students as every 3-4 year they pass out and we have to redo all the efforts. Vikas suggested young teachers as the target. Sandesh was of the opinion that medium experienced teachers to target. Philip wanted to target students so the question arose naturally, who will teach teachers? Mr. Barve told he learned more from his students. I stressed the need to make teachers aware of this. Venky was of the opinion that if we target teachers we reach more people. Philp pointed out the need to educate students the participating culture. this help them expand the community as they grow.  Swaroop supported this argument.