[ILUG-BOM] Ubuntu 18.04 is official now in the state Junior Colleges.

[Dhruva Lokegaonkar]

Congratulations to everyone involved! I wish for the success of the new
curriculum. Having Open Source in education is the fastest method of
spreading the message forward.

On 2019-07-25 07:56, Tayyabali Sayyad wrote:
> We are very glad to make you know that the restructured IT syllabus of XI
> standard is based exclusively on Open Source content.  The books are now
> available in the market. Around 1.5 lac students in Maharashtra will be
> introduced to Linux and open source from this and successive years.
> 
> Although the recommended OS is Ubuntu 18.04, LTS, students can use any
> other Linux Distro if they are interested. All screenshots are that of OSS.
> This was indeed a major hurdle in migration with old textbooks.
> 
> The book follows the National Education Policy in ICT education in order to
> make the education cost-effective, ethical and accessible to all.
> 
> This is undoubtedly the result of the seeds sown by our veteran founders of
> ilug-bom.
> 
> We are incredibly fortunate to have your support in our journey of
> restructuring the syllabus of IT for XI standard. This couldn't have been
> achieved without your timely and valuable support.
> 
> The most substantial contribution is from Krishnakant Mane and his GNUKhata
> team. The extensive training which the team provided gave BOS members
> tremendous confidence, especially in the accounting software.
> 
> Special thanks to Prajakta Patkar, Karan Kamdar and Abhijit of GNUKhata
> team.
> 
> Our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Nagarjuna, Prof Khedkar, Prof Abhinav Jog,
> Chandita, and Kasinath Guru.
> 
> We are thankful to Adv V P Patil, Adv Amardev Unniyal and Sudhakar Kashyap
> for their help regarding PIL.
> 
> Thanks to Fr Jude and Sajida of St Mary High School, Sr Meena of Auxilium
> High School,  Gayathri Narayanan (SIWS College), Vidyadhar Mhatre,
> Shrikrishna Joshi.
> 
> We are very much thankful to Sudhanwa Joglekar, Gaurav Pant and many other
> members from PLUG.
> 
> We are thankful to Balbharti, Hon Director, Support Staff and of course to
> all  BOS team members (listed in the textbook)
> 
> We are thankful to Rushubh Mehta and Dr Nambiar, Director DBIT, for
> providing space for ilug-bom meetings and FOSS events.
> 
> Words are not enough to express how grateful we are for the help you all
> extended to us directly or indirectly.
> 
> Please accept our warmest thanks for your support. We hope to get the same
> support in the years to come.
> 
> After this two year course, students join various graduation courses,
> especially BSc(IT) recognized by Mumbai University.
> These courses still use proprietary software on a large scale in the degree
> college computer labs.
> 
> Although many degree colleges are struggling to migrate to open source,
> they are held back due to some exclusive vendor based products in the
> curriculum. We expect far more support in order to pursue this issue at the
> university level.
> 
> - Team Don Bosco
> 
> Rushabh, Joe, Raghu, Rajeev,Tayyab, Nilesh, Milind, Pralhad, Benoy,Dhruv,
> Sameer, Dr Medhekar, Vishal, Rajendra.
> 

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Dhruva Lokegaonkar
dhruva at lokegaonkar.in <mailto:dhruva at lokegaonkar.in>
lokegaonkar.in <https://lokegaonkar.in>

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