Digital Literacy awareness program

Dear Friends,

On Behalf of our foundation,we people start working and give the Digital Literacy awareness program in S.H.N.Ethel harvey Girls Higher Secondary School,Sattur.The Response was awesome and on behalf of our foundation Anuja Zemon,Hemalatha Who handle Standard 6th and 7th.In their Sessions,they Teach about gaming,basic usages of computer and applications of computer in our world.Standard 8th and 9th was handled by Maheswaran and he deliver something about future world,online shopping and online movies.Free open Source Philosophy and Story of OS and RMS is delivered to Standard 11th by Chidambaresan (Myself).We then give demo regarding Tux Paint,KLABS,OPEN OFFICE to the Staffs and Provide ubuntu cds to Headmistress.

Join With us

Dear Friends,

we start working with a foundation called Sakthi FOSS Foundation.Our Working plan to promote Computer Knowledge and FOSS among School Students,if we cultivate in earlier buddies means they grown up with that passion,thats what we think.please support us and give suggestion to improve the activities.keep visit us at www.sakthifossfoundation.blogspot.com .and join with us in mailing list http://groups.google.co.in/group/sakthifossfoundation.reach us throgh orkut by http://orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=102816163

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our previous activities

We at Sakthi FOSS Foundation conduct Various activities regarding FOSS.In February 13th we start initiate the FOSS in Sattur and over 413 participants participate from various colleges and get awareness on FOSS.

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Audience in the conference

Chidambaresan explain about FOSS philosophy

and in 3rd march we extend our seminar towards open source world in pandian saraswathi engineering college,Sivagangai and there we initiate foss and request the principal shankara ramalingam,vice principal prof.niraichandran to demonstrate foss lab and insist students to learn foss softwares.

Hope We do our Service with your Support.

FOSS

A number of software systems are available under each of these. Some example popular open source softwares.

Web browser	Firefox, Iceweasel
Document creation	Openoffice, Latex
Audio record/edit	audacity
Web page creation	Nyu
Content management	Drupal, Jhoomla, Plone/Zope
Learning management	Moodle
Question banking, testing	exe2learn, Moodle
School administration	schooltool
visual programming?	scratch
diagram editing	Dia
scanner	Xsane
3D animation	Blender
image editing	GIMP
page layout like Adobe Illustrator	Scribus
Plotting	Kmplot
Keduca	creating and running tests

Article about 15 year old Engineer...

M.Tech at IIT beckons 15-yr-old Nellai prodigy

Tirunelveli: At 15, some of the ‘toughest’ exams and courses in Computer Science are child’s play for S.Chandrasekar of Tirunelveli, having scored 99.32 percent in the IIT entrance examination for M.Tech (computer science), the boy has achieved what many twice his age are struggling to attain.

“When Chandrasekar was just 5, he began exhibiting his keen interest in computers. He learned MS-DOS, LOTUS and MS-WORD all by himself”, says Subramanian, the boys father. Noticing Chandrasekar’s genius in the subject, one of Subramanian’s friends advised him to encourage the child. The rest is history.

The boy underwent a screening test and an appraisal for Microsoft Certified Professional while he was in class VI. He came out with flying colours in the exam and went on to become the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) at the age of nine.

It was just the beginning, At 10, Chandrasekar became a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer following which he set his mind on CISCO certification – till then considered the forte of a cream of professionals in the industry.

Chandrasekar’s background as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and his perseverance saw him as the world’s youngest CISCO Certified Network Associating at the age of 11. After finishing his schooling at 12, Chandrasekar joined BCA at Manonmaniam Sundaranar university, Tirunelveli. Following BCA came BE at Kalasalingam Engineering College, Srivilliputhur.

Noticing the boy’s potential, his school helped him complete schooling five years ahead of normal kids, giving him double promotions.

Speaking of the prodigy, Renuka Shankaranarayanan, principal, Bell Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Palayamkottai said, “He was very mischievious and playful at school. But he would finish his work well ahead of the other students. Hence, we decided to engage him by setting up a library within his classroom.

While Chandrasekhar loves cricket and admires Tendulkar, his role model is Narayanamurthy, the CEO of Infosys. He also plays the Violin.

Chandrasekar belongs to our area only,not such america and london,why cant our kids too?

SAKTHI FOSS FOUNDATION

Dear folks,

Greetings from Sakthi FOSS Foundation.The Main Motto of this Sakthi FOSS Foundation is to create awareness among Student Community (more specific to the school students and General public) to use this Free Open Source Software.FOSS offers an effective and user-friendly alternative to proprietary solutions. The low-cost (mostly free) makes the alternative appealing to schools which are short of resources. At the individual level, India's per capita income is Rs 20,862 ($474), while PC hardware costs Rs 10,000 ($227) and software costs approximately Rs 11,000 ($250). This means that the cost of hardware and software is comparable to the annual income of most Indians, making them unaffordable. With a FOSS based solution, the software component can be obtained essentially free of charge.

With Referrence to the Statistics of nasscom,More than 60% peoples average earning is Rs.20 per day and take that statistics in account those 60% cant able to get the sophisicated things like computer and all.this may be get reduced when we go for FOSS and With another Statistics,Tamilnadu have 70% of Literate peoples,among them 7% only E-Literate(who is able to use computers).If This Percentage goes on Stable,No Such Exposure is Felt over that 63% people.So our Mission is to become 100% E-Literate Ratio among our tamilnadu(especially the southern Tamilnadu district like Virudhunagar,Tirunelveli,Madurai,Tuticorin,Ramanathapuram and Kanyakumari).To that Vision,we fix our mission to promote FOSS and Computer among School Students Starting from Standard One.

Computer classes in schools are important to a well-rounded education. Students are instructed on the basics of computer use as early as kindergarten. Educational software, often presented in a game-like format, entertains younger students while they learn key concepts.

Technology Skills

The importance of computer study in schools goes beyond the reinforcement of classroom subjects and remedial assistance. Nearly all students will be faced with the need for technology skills when they attend college or enter the workforce.

Keyboarding Classes

Keyboarding classes in elementary schools have replaced the old-fashioned typing classes once offered in high schools. Students learn at a young age how to use computers to generate reports, type essays and research homework assignments.

Career Preparation

Computer skills learned in middle school and high school will benefit students during higher education courses and their careers. Students as young as 12 learn how to create Power Point presentations, video projects and photo slideshows.

Online Access

By learning how to use computers, students even in low-income areas have access to the world at large. Online learning courses, which were once a rarity at colleges, now comprise a large portion of many schools' course catalogs.

Adult Learners

Students who are introduced to computer courses at an early age adapt quickly to advances in technology, and typically do not fear additional training and new concepts as adult learners.