Request to contribute for CBSE065 project

[narendra sisodiya]

Please forward this to Student/Teacher/Writers

1. Introduction

"Project 065" is India's first project to write a wiki based, collaboratively written textbook for CBSE Class XI & XII - subject code 065. Subject Code 065 is called Informatics Practice.

2. Aim of Project

Following are the aims of the project.

• Provide an excellent textbook to the student
• To showcase that the wiki based collaboratively process for such books is the best approach.
• Producing a "CC-By-SA" or "CC-SA" (creative commons) license based book - Advantage of this type of work
• Anybody can download, read, share, print, copy and photocopy the work.
• Anybody can modify and upload correction in textbooks
• Any publisher can print the textbook without royalty, lowering the textbook cost.

3. Who are in Project

• Volunteers and Organizations across India. See list_of_volunteer

4. How to join

Step 1

• Join Our mailing list, http://groups.google.com/group/cbse065

Step 2

• Checkout the stage of development. We have divided the whole in appx 50 modules. You can see list of modules and the percentage of work done. Choose any of the module and enhance it. The Syllabus is available at syllabus

Contact

• All communication must be done via Mailing list but in case or urgency you can contact Narendra Sisodiya for help desk (narendrasisodiya @gmail.com)

Why This Project is Very Important

• Recently CBSE has changed its syllabus. Syllabus contains Java/MySQL. ( http://code.google.com/p/cbse-065/downloads/list ). Thus the students are getting their first exposure to the FLOSS environment in their syllabus and textbook. But textbooks are not ready. We fear that even if the textbook is published by some well known author (Ex Sunita Arora), it will be containing Windows based examples and development tools. For example those textbook won't provide examples of installation of FLOSS software on FLOSS platforms like MySQL on Ubuntu or Eclipse and Java on Debian. So it is The FOSS community of India's responsibility to addres these issues and give the best textbook to our young children.

When this project started

• 6 Jan 2010

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