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IOE (Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus) FOSS Community under
the guidance of ACEN (Association of Computer Engineers Nepal) and NITC
(National Information and Technology Center) conducted a survey cum
campaign to promote FOSS among the school students this February and
March . It was an attempt to make students aware about FOSS and its
importance in today's computing world.
This here is an abstract of the abstract of the report prepared by us.
The complete report is available here http://foss-nepal.googlegroups
.com/web/Foss_campaign_Report_ACEN_IOEFOSS.pdf
Please go through it and give us your feedback

" It must have been just a bubble of
thought in someones mind years back, but today the open source
revolution has indeed become a reality, embracing the whole globe and
creating rather a phenomenon. With IT booms taking place in the
neighborhood, Nepal does not come under an exception. To stand against
the billows of these accelerated growths, Nepal has to produce
versatile manpower adept in utilizing resources of both worlds: open
source as well as its
counterparts.........................

Hence, this campaign targeted the
school as well as college students making them aware of the 'Free and
Open Source software's. As a major phase of the campaign, 10 schools
within Kathmandu Valley were visited. The campaign included Government
as well as Private schools. Presentations were given to class 8, 9 and
10 in most schools and in some schools, presentations were given to the
college going students. The schools were also provided with 5 live CD's
of five different Linux distributions and 1 CD containing FOSS for
windows. Questionnaires were also distributed to the students as well
as the teachers present during the presentation. "


Shishir Jha
IOE FOSS Community
Pulchowk Campus