Hi, My thoughts below:
--- On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Eknath Venkataramani<[email protected]> wrote: | 2) Yes I want to submit it back to project heads(upstream) because I would | want to do my my final year project in whatever I am taking up. Or is it | something you suggest against? \-- There is nothing for or against. You can always submit your changes upstream. --- | a) A project good enough for the professors (of whichever | department) to take me as a student in a good US university for my MS. | Rather simply put, a project that would add a lot of weight to my statement | of purpose enough to make them want me in their college (or am I being | overly ambitious?). \-- 1. It is not ambitious, but, has a very cunning motive. IMO, you should always work on F/OSS projects because it teaches you something new, and you enjoy doing it, and contributing to it, and not for the motives you have mentioned. 2. What hasn't been learnt and practised very well in 3 1/2 years of "engineering" cannot be undone by one final semester "project". This is yet another of those common statements that I hear from students, "Let me do one good project, and hopefully get a job or an MS". --- | b) A minimal stipend (Quite evidently, my project mentor | wouldn't be a professor from my institution(or am I wrong?). If so, then | according to my college's final year project specifications, 'a student is | allowed to undergo only an _internship_ outside the college'. And by | internship, they mean 'a project giving the student some amount of money in | the form of a stipend' or 'the student must already be placed in that | company'. \-- That is a shame! Are they running an educational institution or doing business? 3. You always work on a Free Software project because it teaches you something, and that you enjoy the freedom of source, knowledge and fellowship, and not for the above 'motives'. Sure, you could get 'money', 'fame', 'job', 'admit for post-graduation', but, those are only side-effects. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
