Hi Sarose and FOSSians, [ My post is fairly long ]
sarose wrote: > Guys who actually started good framework like spring, wicket, dwr, (or > MySQL) all have to say is very less noticeable contributor from asia. > If you are not in this jee realm, You have plenty of interesting > project laying floating around, desperately looking for real > contributor. Project with new ideas are always welcome but all I have > seen, every time they show off aggressive enthusiasm, are dead by few > weeks if not months. I want to see mentor to exercise kinds of > searching that helps these dudes to get down into the stream of some > of the top notch opensource project which can equally give them good > exposure and opportunity. though its kinds of difficult, but i have > seen students in rural kerala who dare to take up cruel Solaris bugs > and sends back the patches with proud. Why not you guys? I think its fair to say that Linux revolution or the adoption of opensource in Nepal is relatively new compared to other developing nations. This doesn't mean that there aren't great minds in Nepal. AFAIK, this has got to do with encouragement through colleges universities and community to name a few. I mean how many users of Linux exist in India vs. that in Nepal? Not a lot I suppose. Its less is what I wanted to say. Theres also the question of programming competitions, question of how competitive and marketable the software development scene in Nepal is. Assuming a student works in an opensource project (say submitting patches). As human we are (in the words of master yoda), the student could possibly start to think how working in an opensource project will help them later when there's no job security at all? Added to that is the electricity problem. How can students do programming when the hours of electricity cut is 13hours? And NO i do not tend to believe the old saying "garne le jasari pani padhcha" (meaning without computer & electricity). Until an unless students have access to computer system, they are rote-learning and not necessarily learning by "doing". Lot of factors to take into account. Nonetheless, I definitely think that if the students are capable and really wants to learn to program in a opensource project, they should be given encouragement at highschool/college/university/home and the ENVIRONMENT suitable for students should be created. Sadly, its in such a mess atm and has been like that for the past decade! :-( Just my .2 paisa/cent Cheers! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
