On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Sahil ModGill <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel good and happy when I see a young mind contributing in Open Source > unless Indian students are mad about TCS, Wipro, Infosys et. al.
There are a couple of bits that need to be cleared up. [1] there is a growing number of young students who are interested in picking up skills that help them use and contribute to upstream Free and Open Source projects. While Google Summer of Code has certainly stimulated this growth, the increasing number of hackathons, meetups and, dev-camps have provided the environment in which quick hacks can lead to interesting outcomes [2] a good number of the above are moving away from traditional UGs (perhaps because LUGs in India are often perceived to be "help me install software or, configure hardware" social forums) [3] the TWITCH group companies that you mention above are involved both as consumers of Open Source as well as being contributors. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
