If only people utilized resources around them, then alot can be achieved. I get baffled when I see students in MUK whining and making comparison or sometimes under estimating the resources before them. Take for instance if you went to lab and found it empty or partially filled, then there is a high chance that there isn't internet connection. When you find it filled, nearly all students are chatting away and one would wonder when we would ever catch up to the slandered of students in the US. In the end of comes down to intereste driven by a strong sense of curiosity. The desire to know how things work or how to make life better is what drew many geeks to the level they are in now.
Some times the government will towards innovation and research matters alot in advancing technology. The American gov't spends alot of money in keeping NASA running, yet here we spend it on buyng 200m cars for gov't officials. The government together with the private sector like Apple or Microsoft in the US have made computers and academic devices more affordable, so as to have nearly everyone joining the digital world. Lastly most of us here lacking a reading culture. Regardless of how much information you have before you but if you don't take time to read and understand it, then is wasted. We prefer to read something either ''juicy'' and gossips or anything with little intellectual input. We need an a complete overhaul to our mindsets if we are to achieve more in technology. Regards, Ronald On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with you on not using GSoC as the measure. It is only a crude > measure. Just as others have in the past used Project Euler as a crude > measure. > > On the question of what we (software company people and lecturers) are > going to do about it, my view is that we are doing our bit. I think I tried. > More to the point, ask not what your country will do for you. And so on and > so forth. In the last fews years I taught at Makerere I was always amazed > how much students moaned about conditions, and yet were unable to see the > opportunities presented to them. Of course this is normal human behaviour. > The Faculty of Computing at Makerere has more Internet-connected computers > than any other organisation in this country. And yet you always saw them > doing Facebook! > > Then there was the small matter of your typical student's inability to > leverage the Internet for learning purposes, despite your lecturer's best > efforts. > > The short of it, Eugene, is that the hard reality of this world is that we > owe you nothing. And yet one day you will leave that cosseted setting and we > will demand a lot from you. What you are you doing do about that? > > P. > > On Sep 12, 2010, at 21:39, [email protected] wrote: > > > People write code to solve problems that are facing them, so how can you > tell a guy from Kihihi to code for a robot? The guy thinks that robots only > exist in movies. My solution is maybe we should not gauge ourselves on > Google summer of code and try to write codes to solve our current problems. > > I am sure that universities abroad receive huge sums of money from their > governments to do what they do and yet for us even getting internet is a > challenge. So maybe we should stop looking at them and look at ourselves. > Some of the people complaining about this are lecturers and people who own > software companies, so what are you going to do about that yourselves?? > > Eugene MUNYANEZA > > Makerere University > > Faculty of Computing and Information Technology > > Bachelor of Science in Computer Science > > Year 3 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > --------------------------------------- > >
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