The paper says it so well !! +1000 to that !!!
I have been doing FOSS promotion for about 11 years now (www.plug.org.in) and faced same issues all the time. Except that they now know there is something called Linux and open source, nothing much has changed in all these years.
You can at least teach to the students and may be they can accept a few things, but teaching FOSS (or anything for that matter) to teachers is a nightmare. You can get about 1-2 % teachers max. from whom you can get some positive response.
Well, I can go on and on and on on this topic.
-Sudhanwa
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Jessie Wild jwild@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011.
Thanks! Jessie
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
Not specific to MediaWiki or GSoC, but this document[1] by Shakti Kannan explains a lot about the common issues you'll face if you're doing Open Source advocacy in Indian colleges.
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