[Fsf-friends] Kerala school training material

[ck raju]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raj Mathur<raju at linux-delhi.org> wrote:
> taught the insides-out of OOo and still not being able to make a decent

"..Though Stallman didn't give a traditional reason for this, didn't
ground his position in any particular philosophical or ethical theory,
he was in fact a Dewey-ite. He was in fact saying what John Dewey had
said at the beginning of the 20th Century, that the education and
expansion of the human mind depends upon the opportunity to experiment
with the world. That it is the ability to join forces with the
material and immaterial knowledge surrounding us in the planet which
makes our minds grow and develop..."
http://ia331420.us.archive.org/1/items/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007text/scl2007_eben_moglen.html

The opportunity to *experiment* with Free Software necessarily means
using all its freedoms - to escape from accusation of merely "using"
it. There may be plenty of areas like soliciting students to
contribute to the graphics contents or to the localisation efforts, in
the beginning and substantial hacks towards the end - most of which
cannot be undertaken with non-free software and finally distributing
or publishing them under GPL. Once teachers are exposed to these
possibilities, they may be able to solicit opinions from their own
student communities and come out with better findings.

[Neither Bengal's cops nor Chidambaram's cops are around to shoot
you... breathe easy.. you don't look like a Chinese - ..aoist]
CK Raju