hi all: while there is considerable resistance from HoDs and other staff members re FOSS projects, there have been a number of projects done in the past three years. I have been requesting the students / staff to give me brief details, but the response has been sparse and sporadic.
i think it is very likely that most of these students (especially from Anna Univ affiliated colleges) would be members of this list. if they could gather info from them, we could use the info for furthering the cause of FOSS projects in colleges. to start with, the student(s) could send the following info: a) title of the project b) student info -- name, reg no, branch, year c) foss tool(s) used d) brief abstract & status -- completed / partial / simulated ... e) weblinks -- if they have uploaded the details the info could be sent to nrcfoss at au-kbc dot in and/or to my office id <srinivasan at cdac dot in>. i can work along with bharati and colleagues at au-kbc colleagues to get the info collated and sorted. am taking this au-kbc route, since this could part of the nrcfoss activity. the summary info could be highlighted thru nrcfoss and ilug-c portals. we could follow this up with (a) gettting more info about the project work, check and arrange for demo of successful projects (b) interacting with them to work out the strategy for making it easier to do foss projects -- including getting the colleges to agree, etc. if possible, we could have a demo on select projects on the software freedom day, may even give prizes for the top three or so ; more importantly, announce that "FOSS projects to be done during 2009-10 even sem will get support from us ; ILUG-C in collaboration with NRCFOSS will evaluate the projects ; selected ones will be put on demo (in may/june 2010?) and prizes / certificates offered from nrcfoss. " While ILUG-C could focus on TN colleges, other groups could get this going in their respective states. Srinivasan. On 8/7/09, senthilraja P <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/8/09, Arulalan T <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi to all, >> >> >> I planned to do all the following syllabus projects using " Ruby On Rails >> ". >> >> But my Staffs are not supporting to do this semester projects in other >> Languages. > > > > I just wanted to share, that a team of final year students from Mahendra > engg college had done their final year projects in RoR. They created a > project in rubyforge, for this, and uploaded their files in the SVN. > > http://rubyforge.org/projects/eduerp/ > > They too had faced the same kind of issue, and after some level of patient > explanation, their HOD accepted it. > > The project was NOT a hi-fi one, but just an attempt to develop a web-based > ERP software for their college. They could only develop a basic prototype > version, and submitted it for their final year project. > > The advantage they had over others is that, they were able to explain in > detail about RoR, their project, how they did it, and other technology they > used like SVN etc, while other students who purchased could not do so. > > So, considering the immense support from this ILUGC group, i feel, you > should be able to persuade your HOD to allow you. > > Regards, > Senthil > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
