[FSUG-Bangalore] Report: Free Software Session at ITI Kolar Gold Fields

[jaykumar hs]

Hi Balaji,

It's a nice report.

jaykumar

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Balaji Kutty <balaji.kutty at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday(May  3, 2008) we conducted a Free Software awareness session to
> students of ITI Kolar Gold Fields. This is just a small report on it.
>
> At about 7am we(myself, Justing, Resinesh and Jaykumar) gathered in my
> house in BTM. We had already decided to go by car. We got to Old Madras road
> towards Kolar. After a small(45 mins!) break for breakfast, we reached the
> ITI campus at about 9:45am which is just 3kms before Kolar Gold Fields(KGF).
>
> ITI is a nice big campus hosting around 700 students. It has a nice
> computer lab too. We got around 30-35 students listen to us. I introduced
> them Free software. Jaykumar helped  the students by translating my lecture
> to Kannada. While we were talking to students, Resinesh installed Ubuntu
> 7.10 in one of the machines there for demo. After about 45 mins of boring
> the students, we took them to the lab. There with our laptops and the newly
> installed desktop, we showed the students the Debain and Ubuntu
> distributions and asked them to play around with it. Justing and Resinesh
> demonstrated them different tools of GNU/Linux, using different languages in
> GNU/Linux, etc. More than 95% of the students have never even heard about
> GNU/Linux and do not even think that there  is  an alternative to MsWindows.
>
>
> After the demo we had a small chat with the students and asked them to
> form a group to work and learn some distribution of GNU/Linux to start with.
> They will call us  if they need any help. We stared back arounnd 1:30pm, had
> lunch and reached Bangalore around 4:15pm.
>
> The kids are smart as usual. They lack only exposure. We felt that it is
> very important for Free Software Community to reach places like these where
> GNU/Linux is not even heard of. We should come up with a proper plan and
> execute.
>
> Thanks,
> Balaji
>
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