Journalist Dionne Bunsha’s blog…

Journalist Dionne Bunsha’s blog… Current entries include:

• Environment (6)
• Farm Crisis (12)
• Globalisation (2)
• Gujarat violence and its aftermath (45)
• Human Rights (4)
• Misc (1)
• Mumbai (2)
• People (2)

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Phoenix: Experimental physics teaching for college teachers… (and Free Software)

WBUT organized a 6-day workshop on experimental physics teaching for college teachers.

A lot of the hands-on focus was on using and integrating the Phoenix from IUCC, in designing innovative experiments.

Needless to say, the entire program was conducted on FOSS, with nearly 3-days of Python Programming thrown in as the language of choice for interacting with Phoenix-M.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/indradg/sets/72157600095133839/

PHOENIX: Physics with Homemade Equipment and Innovative Experiments

This project started as a part of the program by Inter University Accelerator Centre to improve the laboratory facilities at the universities. It is a Hardware and Software Framework that can be used for developing computer interfaced science experiments without getting into the details of electronics or computer programming. The objective
is to make teachers and students familiar with computerized experimental systems and also to enable them to develop new experiments. Different sensors elements can be interfaced and accessed by few lines of Python code. Phoenix utilizes the power of personal computers for experiment control, data acquisition and its mathematical analysis. The instrument is designed using locally available low cost components and the design is freely available for commercial production. Design supports hardware plug-in modules for expansion. Phoenix is developed using Free Software tools. The Phoenix
Live CD contains all the required phoenix programs plus a collection of science and engineering software.

For detailed documentation and to get started quickly, download the book in PDF format. The Help Page has addresses of the users who are willing to help. Find out the ones closest to your location

http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/

technorati tags:education, physics, floss-in-education, gnu/linux, india, westbengal, higher-education

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Shu… and Chhattisgarh-Net

Journalist Shubhranshu Choudhary wrote in, in another context… but his mail reminded me of the chhattisgarh-net which seems to be going strong at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chhattisgarh-net/ and also accessible via the shorter URL of http://36garh.notlong.com Nice to see such initiatives grow!

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From Portugal, a look from the Escola de Direcção e Negócios

Eugénio Viassa Monteiro <evmonteiro at aese.pt> sent in a 221kb PDF copy of this newsletter, meant to share news about India in Portugal. Eugenio is from the Escola de Direcção e Negócios (a 25-year-old institution doing work in fields like company policy, human behaviour in the organisation and ethnics, commercial policy and marketing, operations and technology, accountability and management control systems, finance, economic and social analysis for management).

He writes:

I tried to shorten the Newsletter by putting aside a number of news/articleswhich had full right to be included. Balancing is always difficult when so manyimportant events take place in that sub-continent.

In this issue you can find:

Right at the start is the suggestive article on biotechnology: India’s BiotechIndustry Emerging as World Innovator, Collaborator, Competitor. India abolishedunilaterally customs duties on goods imported from neighbouring countries ofSAARC, a remarkable attitude when India is growing rich and is tryingto help the less favoured neighbours. A short note on micro-credit to relievepeople from poverty follows.

The strong export of services to take place in the next years is well developed.Job creation in services is expected to grow in the retail sector, namely infoodstuffs. Clothing is occupying an increasing number of firms such as Raymondwhich will triple its outlets; and pressure of new incoming groups is sensed.

BSNL (telecommunications) is developing capacity for new 40 million ground lines.Nearly 1.000 of the biggest cities will shortly have WiMAX. It is interestingto see that the increment of new subscribers keeps on round about 6.1 millionper month.

Huge investments in power generation and in acquisition of Companies from abroad aresteady. So also are national and foreign big investments for creation of hotelrooms in big cities of India.Just Bangaloreis creating 6.000 rooms in 5 and 4 stars hotels. One only chain is investing$6.0 bn.

Meanwhilethe biggest Indian IT Company, TCS,earned $4,3 bn during the fiscal year 2006/7, with a 44% increase as comparedto the previous year. The other big ones of the sector had a similar or highergrowth.

And the low-fare airways companies and the telecommunications operators, with theirprice reduction strategy, keep on enlarging the market. Big ones of the sector had a similar or higher growth.

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A blog… called penpricks

A blog focussing on journalists and journalism in Goa. “Discover the rotund flanks and the shaggy underbelly of the Goan media. And of course, the rare honest rib.” Check it out at http://www.penpricks.blogspot.com/

Their first couple of posts are here:

WWWW & H

W (WHEN) — As of today
W (WHERE) — Over a sticky piece of Kitkat and a spiked lime soda
W (WHY) — Frustrated at the way we are and what we appear to be.
W (WHAT) — Moderated by two Goan journos. Forum for placing issues on record, which are otherwise only discussed.
H (HOW) — Readers and journalists (if at all there are any), pls write to penpricks@gmail.com any Goa media related wrongs, grievances, ills and praise, where need be.

THE SEASON’S BEGUN

Electionsannounced, its time for Jeckyl to don the robes of Hyde. Read in acouple of days bout the innocuous Rs 1,000 tip-off to journos by anelected representative for a constituency development news report.

Will it be fair? Will it be regular? Will it be even-handed? Or will it need to be defamatory to make its point? Your guess is as good as mine…

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