<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 16, 2007 11:39 PM, Thomas Chung <<a href="mailto:tchung@fedoraproject.org">tchung@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On 11/16/07, subhodip biswas <<a href="mailto:subhodip@fedoraproject.org">subhodip@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: > Hi ! > > Many of you may be aware of Bijra High School Project > [<a href="http://www.dgplug.org/intro/bijra" target="_blank">http://www.dgplug.org/intro/bijra</a>] [<a href="http://bijra.dgplug.org" target="_blank">http://bijra.dgplug.org</a>] of > dgplug [<a href="http://www.dgplug.org" target="_blank"> http://www.dgplug.org</a>] . > > 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 </div>Hi Subhodip, Thank you for your great report. We really appreciated. Regards, -- Thomas Chung <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung </a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list" target="_blank"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Clapping! Great work ..... -- Regards, Mustafa Qasim Lahore, Pakistan Cell: 0321-6614972 URL: <a href="http://www.mustu.info">http://www.mustu.info</a> Registered Linux User# 441709.