Ya ithink thats the true idea, am faisal and am due to graduate next year.. but i lack updates, there is knowledge on things like that..Some good people bt they dont know.
On 9/11/10, Janosch Maier <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the interest of the students is there. At least that was my > impression at the LUG+Google+Python event. > > To me it seems, as if the most people (in general) and students (in this > special case) don’t know that things like the GSoCs are there and not > just for make Google look good, but as a possibility for them. > > Janosch > > Am 10.09.2010 23:40, schrieb Peter C. Ndikuwera: >> 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] >> <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:25:20 >> > To: Linux Users Group Uganda<[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> > Reply-To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> > Subject: Re: [LUG] Google summer of code >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LUG mailing list >> > [email protected] <mailto:[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). 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