Learning management systems

UNSECO promotes FOSS (for learning management systems). Here is a list of FOSS resources, as seen at the UNESCO site ::

http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoftware/Software/Courseware_Tools

Compare learning management systems (LMS)::

http://www.edutools.info/course

To try out some LMSes and several other PHP/MySQL-based
content management systems
without having to install them first see:

http://www.opensourcecms.com

All the above references for learning management systems, and more, available at ::

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7817

This is for the attention of all my students and
teacher-colleagues.

Have fun,

partha

Does no one read my blogs ?

I was a bit disappointed and angry at the s****s before whom i was casting my pearls through my blogs. I discovered that there was a breed of pigs, shameless plagiarists, who read my blogs, only to copy it and publish it elsewhere without my knowledge. Like all brain dead criminals, they left too many trails. I can now give them what they deserve -- a kick at their hinds.

partha

PS: Dear plagiarist : Why dont you copy this blog post and publish it also, in your blog at
pullareddyinstituteoftechnology.blogspot.com ?

Open access journal for CSE

I have come across a source for open access journals related to
Computer Science. This site covers journals related to a wide
range of focus areas in Comuter Science::


http://cscjournals.org/csc/cfp.php


Should be useful to my students, and my teacher-collegues (and also to plagiarists who will shamelessly copy the material).

partha

Linusability + 2

Now IIT-Delhi (my alma mater) has created a special wiki page for "Linux improvement project" (they did not like the "linus" in the "linusability" name).

Take a look ::

Linux usability project

How_to_Improve_Linux_Distro

This is just the beginning. There is still a lot to be done.

partha

Linusability + 1

The linusability project I launched recently, has caught the fancy of many people. There is a huge amount of discussion in the Linux Gazette forum called TAG. The IIT Delhi (my alma mater) Linux User Group has proposed to start a special wiki page for this topic.

I also stumbled on a few interesting sites. The most interesting one (for me) happens to be the one on ISO Standard 9241 related to usability. Google for it, and take a look.

There is a lot of work to do. I am happy.

partha

Linusability

Linux usability -- an introspection (Code name :: linusability)

In spite of all claims and evidence regarding the superiority of
Linux, one aspect of Linux remains to be its major weakness --
usability. This may be the reason for its slow acceptance by the
not-so-geeky user community. I am launching a serious study into
various aspects of the usability aspects of Linux, so as to list
out the problems and hopefully help some people offer solutions.

I need help. Please, if you have any ideas on this subject, or if
you know any sources where I can get directions, or if there is
something I should (or should not) do, let me know directly, by
email. I will compile all my findings, and post them back in this
forum. Let us make Linux more enjoyable by more people.

Many thanks,

partha AT gmail DOT com

Free e books

Look here for ::
http://www.webdesignish.com/best-and-free-programming-ebooks-with-open-source-licenses.html

Go through the alphabetically ordered list of topics/subjects, and make your choice.


partha

Open source projects......

Here is a neatly categorised list of open source projects:
http://www.fossfind.com/

Should be of great value for students and for my teacher-colleagues who may be looking for good projects,

partha

Good news.....

May this news come true. May the world be free of a cancer.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-business-could-collapse-2010-6


partha

Where to cast your pearls ....

Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette (http://LinuxGazette.NET) says this about Prof. Partha's web pages :::

QUOTE You know, I always get a kick out of looking at your page - it's got so much cool, neat stuff on it. Thanks for adding the bits about LG, too! UNQUOTE

Thank you Ben. Only a scholar can recognise the worth of another scholar.

I pity all my colleagues and students who can see nothing in my websites. After all, a certain kind of animal cannot appreciate the worth of pearls, so we don't cast our pearls before them.


partha