Hi All,
Things have kind of started. We have hired a
teacher from the community . A ITI computer student. She will teach 3 hours in
the evening and then on Sundays.
We are currently training the teacher, Kalapana and
two other students mani and prabhu who are very keen to learn. They in turn
teach the others.
See a detailed report below on whats happening an
how you can help.
Articles
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Is a slum computer center really
needed
TRAINING and QUALITY
improvement
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Will be the foucs
for the coming 4 months. From the AID Chennai experience it looks like it will
take about 4-6 months to converge on some minimum quality.
We intend to keep this program as a pilot. We want
to see some distinct differnce after the intervention.
If we are able to do
the same then we can think of scaling after 4-5 months.
TIMINGS
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You can meet us in the
center Mon , Wed, Fri : 6.30 to 9.00 p.m and Sunday : 2.00 p.m-6.p.m. Other days
there will be regular classes.
LANGAUGE NOT A CONSTRAINT : Pulkit
experience
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Oh the other
good thing is that Pulkit did his first class on friday . He is basically from
Gujrat and we ha d the fear that language might be a constraint. We gave
it a shot. He tried with English and it seems to work to a large
extent.
Things needed:
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HARDWARE REPAIR
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1) We need
some one with hardware repair skills to troubleshoot the 2 comps which have some
issues. If you know a commercial computer hardware engineer who can help thats
also good.
COMPUTER NEEDED
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2)
After March the exams will be over. Then it might be good to have another
comp and UPS. We have a promise for the UPS already. We need a
computer
BOOKS NEEDED
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3) Good
Computer Basics books : if some one who knows kannada can go to some place like
Swapna book store and get a set of good computer books. Not hi fi ones but basic
books. In tamil there is a book on how a computer works and internet by Sujatha
who just passed away. Such books make a interesting read an are ver helpful to
the students in quality improvement. However any book is good. Especially ones
which suggest a lot of practical things for the student to try.
Also books in English are good.
Visit
for the topics on which you should buy
books.
GNU LINUX Currciulum
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You know that we use the skill set exercise model
developed by AID Chennai .
We would like to have the GNU/LINUX curriculum
equivalent of the skill set model. This is not very difficult and for a good
GNU-LINUX person it might take less than a day to develop.