I'm a contributor on Amarok and I've seen some of the GSoC proposals for improving it. At the risk of generalization, I haven't met a university student doing IT/Computing who can express themselves well enough to write any of the many proposals for improving Amarok.
The other issue I've seen is that our local students don't believe they can actually *compete* with "those out there". (This is a broader sociological issue I think) I've received huge disbelief when I've talked about some of the OSS projects I've debugged on, or contributed to. And, in a wider context, I've not contributed on any project where there was another African contributor! Hmm.... Maybe as Badru's said, we need to find a way to encourage our local students to engage in Open Source. Maybe LUG doing something at universities like a LUG Summer of Code? :-) I'd be willing to contribute a little money to that. P. "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" -- Robert Frost On 10 September 2010 23:40, Tim Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > The thing with the GSoC is that the rewards are large. There is the > USD5000 for a few months work, and the GSoC is one of the main > recruiting methods for Google. Thats why its strange no one seems > interested > > Tim > > On 10 September 2010 21:18, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter > > > > You are probably very close to the truth. I do believe we have many > brilliant minds in the region however they are not well focused and I > suppose that responsibility falls on pioneers like you to help show how > these guys can contribute. > > > > The sharing spirit is not common unfortunately so the task is to find > ways of creating. > > > > Regards > > > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from Zain Uganda > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Peter C. Ndikuwera" <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:25:20 > > To: Linux Users Group Uganda<[email protected]> > > Reply-To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [LUG] Google summer of code > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > > --------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > > --------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > -- > WebERP Africa Ltd > +447710427049 > +256752963327 > +255784602561 > www.weberpafrica.com > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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