Even the Students Know
A few days ago I received an email asking for help. Help for a syllabus that has been corrupted through vendor orientation. Similarly a few days ago I highlighted about substandard syllabuses in conjunction with colleges being warned about the quality of their syllabus.
I've removed the name and the place of institution, but I can tell you that this is genuine.
Hi,
I am a student of XXXXX, my institute is paying Microsoft 40,000RM every year to maintain their status as a Microsoft Certified Industry Partner, as a result, all lecturing and projects are centered around Microsoft's products, they've been doing this for several years now and the quality of the institute droped dramatically since, it gave me the impression that the graduates are no longer programmers but a bunch of skilled workers of using Microsoft products. We tried to have special interest groups that evangelize for open source development, but failed miserably because we have zero support from our institute.
I would be really appreciated if FOSS can step in and help us with this matter.
Regards,
XXXXX
Even the students know whats going on. So the question is, how can we help them?.
Is your college/university the exact same thing? Do you want more or expect more? You can pass me your concerns...
Note:
The emphasis was added by me.
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February 27th, 2007 - 09:00
I think the best way to help a student is before one chooses a university/college to go to.
What we can do is maybe write some evaluation questions (and why one is asking these questions) which can help the student find the best university/college to study IT or Computer Science.
February 27th, 2007 - 09:13
If the university doesnt want to help .. help yourself (dont misinterpret that
)
What i mean is, continue the effort of making the special interest group .. even without the university supporting … move on their own first, independent from the university … afterward make something useful/can-be-proud-of out of it and let the university notice the existence …
and dont forget the lecturers and the lab technicians .. try to be among them and find those who are interested in OSS and bring them into the group .. they can be a great help .. I believe theres someone among them that loves / can-love opensource, get them ..
in my uni, theres already one LUG that have been around for quite a long time, we are mostly those in #linux of our underground IRC network … and a recent turn of events have made us public among the ICT/BIS lecturers – I believe u know when was the starting point Aizat
remember the lecturer who called u from UTP? ..
I’ve got one technician , 1 postgraduate student and at least 3 lecturers supporting us .. If the university’s own management hard to approve some of our requests , we just do it on our own without them .. (without breaking the university’s rule of course) ..
MyOSS maybe can help by volunteering for a talk etc .. usually ppl will just approve something free (as in teh-tarik)