On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Peter C. Ndikuwera <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you estimate how many students were at the event? Surely if students > were involved in OSS development they'd have encountered the GSoC?
I did submit an application when I was a student (4 years ago) but it wasn't selected to take part...it could be the case for many of the students given the fact they haven't been exposed to these kinds of projects/code etc. Another simple example, how many students do *serious* programming projects/courses at University? For BIT/Computer Science, MUK, I think the number is less than 15 per year. I for one haven't seen a final year project written in C or C++ or any at least any object oriented programming/scripting language. To me, this explains how our programming skills are still wanting. We still need to sharpen our skills before we can even contribute to such (FOSS) projects and graduate to be selected for GSoC. Regards, Wilson _______________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------
