Nagarjuna G. wrote:
We suggested that we can help in (i) designing a curriculum for students that focusses on broad concepts from ICT that help develop thinking skills, as well as specific usage skills, (ii) writing books that can implement this curriculum, in a vendor-neutral manner, (iii) designing curriculum for teachers and iv) implementing teacher training programmes
After listening to the delegation, the Secretary asked us to submit a proposal to contribute to the effective dissemination of ICT skills within the school system in Maharashtra . The team agreed to do this within two weeks and to subsequently explore possibilities of reaching an MoU with the Government of Maharashtra. We will keep you posted as the story develops.
Nice work!
From the views expressed by the Secretary, it appears that they have not grasped the concept of software freedom and are still looking at it as an alternate software vendor. Unless they setup their own in-house core group to understand and implement software freedom, they might simply turn it into vendor vs vendor.