On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For our next edition, we are planning to come up with a story on '*What > > Takes To Be a FOSS Expert'?* > > In his book Outliers (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)>) > Malcolm Gladwell proposed the 10,000 hour rule "claiming that the key > to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing > a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours." > > However, to aspire to be an expert one needs to take the first step > towards that goal. So, it takes the first step towards contributing to > an open source project and participating in an open source community > to be set towards becoming an expert. > > Now, Gladwell may have been correct or, totally wrong. However, Karl > Fogel has a reasonably interesting book > <http://producingoss.com/en/index.html> which lays out things to get > familiar with should one try to begin to contribute to open source > software. A beginner should pick a project/tool/application/service > (s)he loves and, if the selection has an open source community, get > involved by asking smart questions about where one can begin to > contribute. > > > A nice initiative.... > http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/openstack-india/ -- *Regards, Sahil ModGill* _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
