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
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