Whats on Your Mind ?

I was invited for a site visit of OLPC in Chen­nai India , Arani is town around 150 Kms from Chen­nai here is a route map Route Map , and pic­tures below

OLPC in Chennai

, over­all the visit has been fruit­ful saw sugar @ work kids dis­cov­er­ing and learn­ing new things on there own , there were some 10 Xo’s which attracted around 200 kids from in and around the village.

The weather was too hot and dry i did not feel the humid­ity like Chen­nai so sug­gested them to install water cooler . The most pop­u­lar activ­i­ties were Paint , Wikipedia , lack to Inter­net is some­thing which needs to be looked into to get these kids talk out to the world.

on 20th the next day i vis­ited one more school which is a govt school which is under Sarva Shik­sha Abhiyan pro­gramme of govt of India , here i learned about the ABL ( activ­ity based learn­ing ) which is sim­i­lar to activ­ity based in Sugar but it was more struc­tured in the sense of the kid goes from one class to other after he has com­pleted a set of activ­i­ties in on sub­ject or class. In this school the four XO’s are pro­vided the pro­gramme is sched­ule to begin after sum­mer holidays.

things to be done in com­ing days , XO’s need Sugar upgrade. Teach­ers need train­ing , iden­tify kids who can teach other kids , get Inter­net con­nec­tion so that they can con­nect to the larger OLPC community .

Adem­piere listed in top 10 Busi­ness appli­ca­tions in this arti­cle here

Acharya Naren­dra Dev Col­lege
(Uni­ver­sity of Delhi)
in asso­ci­a­tion with
NRCFOSS*, Anna Uni­ver­sity Chen­nai
Organ­ises a Work­shop on
Appli­ca­tion of Free/Open Source Soft­ware (FOSS) In Sci­ence Teach­ing and Research

Date: 14 – 15 April 2010 Venue: Acharya Naren­dra Dev Col­lege
Time: 9: 30 a.m to 4: 30 p.m Govin­d­puri, Kalkaji, New Delhi 110019

The work­shop aims to acquaint and train the par­tic­i­pants in the var­i­ous generic and dis­ci­pline spe­cific free/open source soft­ware use­ful in Sci­ence teach­ing and research. Besides an intro­duc­tion to FOSS, Linux and other Open Source Com­put­ing and Inter­net tools com­mon to all par­tic­i­pants, the work­shop would have par­al­lel ses­sions on spe­cific FOSS tools for teach­ing and research in Biol­ogy, Chem­istry, Physics, Math­e­mat­ics, Sta­tis­tics and Com­puter Sci­ence.
Reg­is­tra­tion: Email us at workshop.andc@ gmail.com
Reg­is­tra­tion fee: Rs 200/­ through DD (non­refundable) favor­ing Prin­ci­pal ANDC, and payable at
New Delhi, may be sent to the Col­lege address given above.
Last date of reg­is­tra­tion: 10th April 2010
Work­shop coor­di­na­tors: Savithri Singh (ANDC), C. N. Krish­nan (NRCFOSS)
Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee: M. S. Rajeswari, Sarita Kumar, Neeti Misra, Sunita Narang
Harita Ahuja, Sub­hash Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Pankaj Khanna
Work­shop Sec­re­tariat: Jatin Lamba; Phone: 26294542
*National Resource Cen­tre for Free/Open Source Soft­ware (NRCFOSS) is a multi­institutional Project funded by the Dept. of
Inf. Tech., Min­istry of Comm. & Inf. Tech., Gov­ern­ment of India ­ http://nrcfoss.org.in/. This work­shop is being organ­ised jointly with NRCFOSS at AU­KBC Research Cen­tre, Anna Uni­ver­sity Chen­nai – http://nrcfoss.aukbc.org.in/

Pro­gramme Schedule

DAY 1: 14/4/10
9.30 – 11.00 Ses­sion I
Ses­sion Title : Inau­gu­ra­tion
Venue Type : Sem­i­nar Hall
No. of Par­tic­i­pants : Around 100
11.00 – 11.20 Tea
11.30 – 1.00 – Ses­sion II (Com­bined)
Ses­sion Title : Use of Linux Desk­top & OpenOf­fice
Venue Type : Com­puter Lab
Require­ments : Lab with 100 seats and sys­tems with CD/DVD dri­ves, Pro­jec­tor & white
board.
No. of Par­tic­i­pants : Around 100
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 — Ses­sion III (Com­bined)
Ses­sion Title : Linux Instal­la­tion
Venue Type : Com­puter Lab
Require­ments : Lab with 100 seats and sys­tems with CD/DVD dri­ves, Pro­jec­tor &
white board.
No. of Par­tic­i­pants : Around 100
3.30 – 5.00 — Ses­sion IV (5 par­al­lel ses­sions [maths,phy,chem,Bio & Comp.Sci)
Ses­sion Title : Intro­duc­tion to domain spe­cific FOSS tools( 4 to 5 nos)
Venue Type : Com­puter Lab
Require­ments :5 Labs with 20 seats and sys­tems with CD/DVD dri­ves, Pro­jec­tor &
white board.
No. of Par­tic­i­pants : Around 20 each
DAY 2: 15/4/10
9.30 – 1.00 – Ses­sion V (5 par­al­lel ses­sions [maths,phy,chem,Bio & Comp.Sci)
Ses­sion Title : Live demo on domain spe­cific FOSS tools ( 4 to 5)
Venue Type : Com­puter Lab
Require­ments : 5 Labs with 20 seats and sys­tems with CD/DVD dri­ves, Pro­jec­tor &
white board.
No. of Par­tic­i­pants : Around 20 each
2.00 – 3.15 — Ses­sion VI(Combined)
Ses­sion Title : Cus­tomi­sa­tion of FOSS tools
Venue Type : Com­puter Lab
Require­ments : Labs with 100 seats and sys­tems with CD/DVD dri­ves, Pro­jec­tor &
white board.
No. of Par­tic­i­pants : Around 100
3.15–3.30 Tea
3.30 – 4.30 Ses­sion VII
Ses­sion Title : Wrap up/Certificate Dis­tri­b­u­tion
Venue Type : Sem­i­nar Hall
No. of Par­tic­i­pants : Around 100

This is one ques­tion has been asked on the web and the young peo­ple i meet day in and day out. They are all edu­cated and literati of this world , still they have this Ques­tion How? and some­times Why?

i think it all starts with giv­ing or so called sense of shar­ing with­out any expec­ta­tions , i think that’s the key to it all . This all starts with shar­ing your thoughts , ideas and writ­ings you actu­ally are on the path to con­tribut­ing , because in Foss Com­mu­ni­ties col­lab­o­ra­tions is they key to the sucess  of an idea. lets exam­ine these in more detail hope­fully peo­ple who ask these ques­tions will get there answers some­where or never since it takes time and energy to let go your Old Habits and relearn the new ones, the best doc­u­ment i have come so far in this direc­tion is from Gnu­bie