End of 10 Campaign awareness in Indian educational institutions

Thanks @kishy! By the way, the reason for not filing RTIs at first is, once we file RTIs they'll be less willing to listen to us making it harder to convince. So, I thought we can try to get a sense of the numbers first and go for RTI only if manual collection fails.

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  Physically reach out to schools and colleges (or email at the least if not possible)

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  Discuss possible ways to include walk-ins or discussion in FSCIConf

How well are computers not preloaded with Windows selling? And there is no not-preloaded option for slabphones, because it doesn't make sense.

I think the majority of the voters, politicians, bureaucrats, students and teachers want to get s#!t done, on computers or on the slabphone. Are there alternatives that also work? Even if we had a FLOSS Chromebook, people would still have to use Google Docs etc. on it.

@Life is Tetris The intention isn't to sell new computers, but to repurpose the e-waste that will be generated when these institutes discard the windows 10 computers. I believe we can prevent this.

We have seen examples of FOSS software being practically deployed in the education sector in India. A specific example would be public schools in Kerala (https://www.kite.kerala.gov.in/KITE/index.php/welcome/wedo/1).

I haven't used it personally to know how effective it is at getting s#!t done, but it'll certainly be more useful than e-waste.

also more here if you haven't checked it out, https://endof10.org/

@kishy thanks for making the goal clear.

The M$ stand shows how little they value Windows nowadays. Do they have a plan to replace devices with a Chromebook-like device but for Office365 instead of Google suite? That would be difficult to pull governments away from, awash as they are with tax money.

Even otherwise, who would do the work to backup documents and wipe and install GNU/Linux and restore documents on lakhs of devices? Why would that process be trusted to not put in backdoors?

@Life is Tetris I haven't really thought about the scale of it until now, but it does seem like a tedious process that will require sustained effort. I believe it should be entrusted upon the government itself to train people to perform the aforementioned.

Also, how can you trust a proprietary operating system to not have backdoors? Instead of one that is developed transparently.

@kishy i wouldn't trust a proprietary system, but they already did and so are predisposed to continue to!

Windoze has a good migration story with OneDrive. And people would probably like new hardware.

Maybe if there is a market outside those organizations for that hardware, and organizations are OK with that in terms of confidential information on disks etc ...

The initiative I mentioned was not about raising awareness. This was the message in the End Of 10 main room:

In the German Endof10 Room someone from Bits & Bäume (a tech environment group) suggested to ask governments how many hardware they have to change through the end of Windows 10 and what they are doing with this devices. They have a meeting today at 17:00. See End Of 10 Kampagne (Deutsch) for details. That's maybe something we can do internationally, too. The press is maybe interested in such numbers.