[CCC-FSFTN] Theni-CCC,Distro and Syllabus

Venkatesh Thennarasan venkatesh.thennarasan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 10:52:48 IST 2016


its overwhelming for 6th to 9th standard..leave alone 3rd.. you've ;listed
all revolutionary ideas from FOSS as sy;llabus,
we have to analyse the mentality and mindset of teachers before we suggest
that they aren't foss enthusiasts. they are home users

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Shanthakumar <sha at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> ---On Tue Apr 19 at 11:38:37 IST 2016, Yogesh G <yogeshg1987 at gmail.com>
> wrote :
> |
> | 1. Use simple plain text. My first reaction when I see your ugly large
> text
> | is that this is spam.
> `--
>
> yep ;
>
> ,--
> | 2. Stop suggesting that we create distros. It's a waste of time and
> energy
> | if you are simply going to install it in one or two machines.
> `--
>
> agreed with that. But wait.. I have an idea if anyone is interested in
> taking this as a learning exercise, there is this [NixOS] where we can
> simply write a list of all packages needed in target system and it
> will make the deployment in a couple of commands. Also we can share
> binary builds in one system with other machines in [nix] way
> (considering internet bandwidth in rural areas).
>
>
> Let's compile a list of packages needed:
>
> ,-------------------+----------------------+-------------------------------,
> | What ?            | Prop                 | FOSS
> |
>
> |-------------------+----------------------+-------------------------------|
> | Paint application | MS Paint             | Tux Paint
>  |
> | Vector Graphics   | MS Visio / coreldraw | Inkscape
> |
> | Office            | MS Office            | LibreOffice
>  |
> | Plain Text        | Notepad              | Gedit
>  |
> | IDE               | TurboC               | Geany / Eclipse / Emacs / VIm
> |
> | Art Work          | Photoshop            | GIMP
> |
> | Kbd layout        | Tamil99              | -
>  |
> | Media             | MS WM player         | VLC
>  |
> | Games             | -                    | SuperTux
> |
> | DE                | -                    | Gnome/KDE/XFCE
> |
>
> `-------------------+----------------------+-------------------------------`
>
>
> ,--
> | 4. Create an FSFTN repo for syllabi
> `--
>
> * [IMO] : A sample outline that a student can cover from Class I to UG :
>
> <non-technical>
>
> - Philosophy
>   + F/OSS
>   + Hacker Culture
>   + Ethics
>
> - Learning How to Learn
>   + Using a Search engine
>   + Using a Mailing list
>     * List etiquette
>   + screen-casting/Blogging culture
>   + Crawling news feeds across web
>   + Meetup groups
>   + Getting Things Done
>
> - Privacy
>   + How to Not to Use Social Media
>   + Being Anonymous
>     * Why Anonymity matters
>   + Tools
>     * i2p
>     * tor
>     * GPG
>     * LUKS/veracrypt
>
> - Contribution
>   + OSS
>   + WikiMedia
>   + FSM Activism
>
> </non-technical>
>
> <technical>
>
> - OS
>   + Creating boot media
>   + Installation
>     * Trying different distros
>     * Choosing the right one for right task
>   + Configuration
>     + Network
>     + Shell
>     + WM
>     + Editor
>
> - Tools
>   + Editor
>     * Emacs
>     * VIm
>   + Documents
>     * LaTeX
>   + VCS
>     * git
>   + Artwork
>     * GIMP
>     * Inkscape
>     * Blender
>
> - Programming
>   + Web
>     * HTML
>     * CSS
>     * Transpilers
>   + Imperative
>     * Shell Scripting
>   + Prototype
>     * Lua
>     * JS
>   + Functional
>     * LISP
>       - elisp
>       - Clojure
>       - Racket
>     * Haskell
>   + O_O
>     * Ruby
>     * Python
>   + Misc
>     * Perl
>     * Elixir
>   + Mobile
>     * ReactNative
>
> - Re-De-Centralization
>   + Torrent
>   + Mesh Networks
>   + Bitcoin
>     * BitMessage
>
> </technical>
>
>
> hope someone could categorize / modify above list appropriately and
> see if all are distributed across grades :)
>
>
>
> [NixOS] http://nixos.org/nix/manual/
>
> [nix] http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-binary-cache-substituter
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Shanthakumar
>
>
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