[FSF India] Re: [FSF-India] GNU/Linux in Schools

[R Sai Kiran]

Hi,

>     The point i am trying to make is, you have to interact with the schools and
> colleges first to find out what they need. That must be provided if they are
> concerned about them. The approch of "Take this package. this is good for you"
> may not work.  You need a very practical approach here. 

	That's a very neat suggestion. What's on my mind right now?? - as
you suggested, I think we should first get the requirements right. How
many people do we have here, and from which parts of the country. To my
knowledge, there are a good chunk of people from Trivandrum and I'm from
Chennai. What we could do is, decide upon a standard format questionnaire
kind of a thing. A few simple questions like what software is currently
being used in their machines (the most obvious one ofcourse, but I'm sure
we can get a lot more). Basically, what we could call a "market survey"
:-). Identify the top, say 10 or 20 schools in cities where we have
volunteers and actually, PHYSICALLY go to the school give them the forms
and get the responses. I think email/snail mail will not work. It might be
a little painful for the volunteers, but, I think it's necessary. I'm
ready to do this in Chennai.

	Any better ideas .. or think this one is stupid, please let me
know. Also, anybody and everybody on the list interested in helping,
please come forward and tell us. We need more ideas.

	The way the discussions are progressing, we might be onto
something *GOOD*. :-)

Regards,

Sai

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