> | The main aim was to select and give training only to those people who > | have some sort of experience with programming and good aptitude. > \-- > > What you need to test is "attitude".
... which is hard to convey to the teachers making the selection. > You were probably just lucky. Yes, very much. > I would like to emphasize that this may or may not be the case in > every Institute. In future, please let the sessions be open to all, > and let the students, whoever is interested, join the lab, mailing > list, IRC discussions. This is where things get tricky. Of course we were circumspect and conservative given the fact that this was a almost a revolutionary thing that was being tried out at NIT Hamirpur. We did not want to bite more than what we could chew, and we hardly knew what the appetite was. :-) On a slightly serious note, we were more eager to address the issue of freshly graduated computer science engineers being little more than advanced users. The idea of allowing the Electronics & Communication students was merely to make it slightly more inclusive. > Nothing can/should prevent anyone from contributing or working with > Fedora. In the official documents, we had replaced all the trademarks and proper nouns with generic computer science terms to minimise any political obstructions. Since it becomes a bit difficult to say "students from any department can contribute to the development of a world-class operating system and its applications" without revealing our free software 'conspiracy' we chose to downplay this aspect. Cheers, Debarshi _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
