[Ambassadors] Machines roll out at Bijra High school

[Mustafa Qasim]

On Nov 16, 2007 11:39 PM, Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On 11/16/07, subhodip biswas <subhodip at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > Many of you may be aware of Bijra High School Project
> > [http://www.dgplug.org/intro/bijra] [http://bijra.dgplug.org] of
> > dgplug [http://www.dgplug.org] .
> >
> > On 15th November 2007 we had a grand inauguration of the project. The
> > initial idea was to open the world of computing to poor students .
> > This has been done using completely free and opensource softwares.
> >
> > WBUT (West Bengal University of Technology ) and L2C2 Technology lend
> > us a helping by providing few computers to the school.
> > An LTSP server running fedora 7 along with few old PIII machines has
> > been deployed. Not only that as most students lack proper English
> > knowledge so the whole implementation has been done using bengali
> > (native language ) BN_IN locale .
> > The area also lack a proper internet connection so kiwix (offline
> > wikipedia), wordnet (a dictionary dump) , project gutenburg dvd dump (
> > collection of english classics) are among the few softwares
> > implemented to provide a complete education setup . So this help them
> > not only in learning computers but also in computer aided learning.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Subhodip Biswas
> >
> > Fedora ambassador
> > West Bengal, India
>
> Hi Subhodip,
> Thank you for your great report. We really appreciated.
> Regards,
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> Thomas Chung
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Clapping!

Great work .....

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Regards,
Mustafa Qasim
Lahore, Pakistan
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URL: http://www.mustu.info

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