Hi, --- On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Eknath Venkataramani<[email protected]> wrote: | 1) Does the motive really matter assuming the | quality would be undeterred? \--
The point is that this misconceived attitude will continue to propogate during your MS, and I am afraid it might not help much in the long run. --- | 2) Yes it is a shame. Yes it is business, they are doing. \-- Sorry to hear that. --- | 3) I guess I have no choice but to bank on a good project since _I_ have | wasted my engineering life in this sordid institution. \-- That is also an excuse that students give for not doing self-study. Nobody prevented you from working on F/OSS projects. --- | 4) I saw the sites you wanted me to go through. The obstacle there was that | it is a freaking ocean out there and I am to pick a drop of water out of | that. I am really confused as to which project I should choose even within a | particular sub category :( \-- What you need to do: 1. Find F/OSS projects online that work with cryptography. Maybe they need something to be implemented, and you can contact the developer mailing list, and start working on it. Developers will be able to help you on mailing lists, IRC. 2. The "i-want-2-do-project. tell-me-wat-2-do" is not meant only for new projects. It has all the information that we have discussed. Please re-read it again, and let us know if you have any queries. There is an IRC live commentary for the presentation here: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/irclogs/2009/2009-06-27_mbuf_iwanttodoprojects.log http://dgplug.org/irclogs/2009/2009-06-27_mbuf_iwanttodoprojects.log If you do 'good work' as how you have been promising on the quality, the developers will themselves give recommendations, or you could give your code to the "professors" working on cryptography. Atleast, most F/OSS projects have people working from Academia, Industry and so on, so you might even find a professor there. The point is that you need to prove yourself with your *work* first, for people to see, rather, than have a wild goose chase. You should never do things that are forced on to you, including F/OSS, because, you will easily quit, or hate it for the rest of your life. The important thing is that you always do things because you love working with it, and you will do that very well, for the same reason. As always, you are welcome to agree to disagree with me. 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
