I understand that many colleges are asking / allowing the students to
project in the college itself.
Of course, many students have their own systems and tend to work from them.
Some of the issues :
a) installation of the distro and the relevant additional packages.
-- while it is desirable to let the students do it themselves, a helping
hand / guidance could be useful
if the immediate goal is to get the project going.
[as Parthan pointed out, the last minute rush will be there.]
b) official letters / certificates : colleges generally need that from the
guiding agency
(for project acceptance, attendance
and completion)
LinuXpert Systems, Linus Academy and other "established setups" could
issue one.
NRCFOSS could provide the platform for unattached mentors (if they
desire it).
c) While the students are enthusiastic, there may be some resistance at the
college level for FOSS projects. Even in one FOSS enabled college, some
students were discouraged. We could do something about it -- using official
/ personal channels.
d) Publicity helps. Can we have a list of "successfully completed" FOSS
student projects.
NRCFOSS, of course, has a vested interest in publicising this list. An
official letter could also be written to all the principals / HoDs
highlighting the availability of FOSS projects and the support offered by
ILUG-C.
e) Evaluation Certificate / Prize
I have refrained (for various opeational reasons --as I see them) from
proposing Prizes for student projects at NRCFOSS. But ILUG-C can announce a
schema. NRCFOSS (and/or others) could provide the funds.
There can also be issues like monitoring the students regularly, helping
them with bandwidths for heavy downloads, etc.
We have to be realise that students might not respond with the same
enthusiasm / effort / basic knowledge.
option 1 : offer project ideas, mentor services to everyone who is regularly
responding (with work or more queries !!),. be prepared that a sizeable
number will drop out.
option 2 : use some criterion (more on commitment than on "top of the class"
variety) to identify student groups, attach atleast one LUG member as
godfather (any godmother??) and get things going.
Srinivasan
(NRCFOSS).
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