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Check out this YouTube Video:
IT@School with GNU/Linux and Free Software
The reporter doesn’t speak of Free Software - but yes, the children are working on GNU/Linux!! And, this might perhaps be one of the world’s largest deployment of Free Software!
Now that we have got GNU/Linux into the hands of our school kids, we should make […]

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Back home after one more round of running-after-doctors at Vellore.

And, some good news for the Free Software community:

Kerala is all set to become the first state in the country to completely banish Microsoft and allow only GNU/Linux free software to be used in the mandatory IT test at the state SSLC examinations that half a […]

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After a long, long time, a bunch of students got together at my place yesterday to participate in an online programming contest - http://opc.kurukshetra.org.in/opc/!
They didn’t win any prizes, but at least, they had the enthusiasm to *try* …
If you check out some of the prize winners - you will notice something interesting - many […]

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Added one more small chapter.
Check out:
http://gnuvision.com/books/pybook

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GnuVision.com is up and running …

Finally, I decided to use a Content Management System, and went for Wordpress, which people know mostly as a blogging software.

Check out how to use Wordpress as a CMS

A bit of PHP tweaking is all that is required … try it out, it is simple! I am using the `Sandbox’ […]

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Snake Wrangling for kids, by Jason Briggs is a book for teaching elementary computer programming (through Python) to school kids.
Recently, a few of us had a discussion about translating the book to Malayalam. GNU/Linux is now available in a lot of schools - and a local language version would be a boon to many […]

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Check out Endangered Species - the chemistry set
Read the comments, they are interesting!
Are such chemistry kits available in India? I don’t think so. I used to play with chemicals a lot - with material sourced from the medical store and from a chemicals dealer nearby who was unwilling to believe that my requirements […]

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That’s what Kishore has to say.
If I were to write something about this topic, I will go totally out of control, so I won’t attempt it.
I still remember furiously attacking the author of a Hindi story by scribbling along the length and breadth of my textbook - I don’t remember why - maybe because […]

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About thirty or so kids attended a summer camp organized by the Swathanthra Software User’s Group, Malappuram.
The camp was at the `Tharakan School’ at Angadippuram, a 100 year old aided school. Students were taught
basic electronics, computer interfacing using Phoenix and elementary Python programming by a group of
“GNU” volunteers for three days starting from […]

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Read Liberalize the Indian Education Sector by Atanu Dey.
The PhD student’s story is not at all surprising, given the fact that these days, all it takes to become an engineer is cash in the pocket.
Atanu sometimes writes very interesting articles. You might like to read:

The Plough and the Keyboard
Zen and the art of […]

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