Dear FOSSmates,
Do we have a central page for the students where they can see which FOSS project can be taken up by them (Which were taken up by their seniors in last 3-5 years) so that they can develop technical skills and contribute to FOSS projects while they are still in their first to final year of academic degree/PG course. If I emulate a student of B.Tech.(CS) first year or the like, then :- I see some FOSS People coming to me and showing some presentations on FOSS, asking/showing to use FOSS and then going away. They tell us that M$ is very bad and Windoze is ver very bad, the fact is, that all the computing I do is M$/Windoze based and my friends say that there is no GUI in Linux. My college labs use TC and non-FOSS software while my course curriculum and teachers bother the least about FOSS. My friends talk of .net/JAVA courses and some other say they will do Oracle or Red Hat/Cisco courses. I want to learn but my semester pressure kills all time and still they ask me to do innovative projects. At the end of the day, I land up using some .net/Oracle/JAVA thing and show some website kind of thing in the name of Online/Intranet based 'student/college/hospital/office/financial/... Management System'. What I really learn is how to show some work, impress evaluators and get marks better at least than my most visible competitor. The semesters over semesters go on and this skill of mine gets improved as I now know the innovative nomenclature for my **** Management System which I always show in projects. The technical skill parts of my Resume looks as follows:- Languages: c,c++, JAVA,.net,SQL Operating System: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7 Software Packages: Turbo C++ Database: Oracle Other Softwares: MS Office Projects: < A List of ABC/XYZ/.. MANAGEMENT SYSTEM> Can FOSS people help me out so that my resume may look better than atleast this? MS
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