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i need to say a lot on this... perhaps the most interesting & complicated thing in engineering... THE PROJECT !!! read onn.... Inline responses follow:- >> Hello guys,This is my first mail to this mailing list. Welcome aboard. Hope you have a great time on the list...!!! >>My group members and myself(total=4) want to make a project in Linux. when you say LINUX.. its a total confusion... what is it that you want to refer to? linux kernel? well, i consider a sence that you want to do something *build some software, driver, filesystem* using linux as a development platform right?? so probably a good way to put that would be... like.. well i want to build a linux device driver for the new HP printer, or something like that probably would make a lot of sence and most important is also the domain/area in which you want to work. i hope my feelings are conveyed. >>But the problem is we don't know anything about Linux. It's never too late... you can start now... it's a world worth exploring and spending time onn, we also started at some point.. JUMP INN !! >>We studied about some project ideas from Proceedings of Linux Symposium but whatever we chose was rejected or was not feasible at BE level. Now, this BE LEVEL stuff is very interesting. (The best thing is that in the engineering syllabus there is no mention of what that level is ..lol ).... so don't worry... it's not specified. Well, i would consider team size to get an approximate guess for the difficulty, but you know at the end it does not matter... what matters is "how much you have learnt from the whole thing and how much experience you have gathered" If you are thinking (no. lines of code written = good marks ) then you are totally wrong because that is not the case... i have seen projects completely on analysis and just stub applications written to make the examiner understand the thing!!! so hope i have got that point clear. >>We also don't have a guide for our project.So I am asking for help. Well, if you could precisely specify domain (i.e. networking, filesystems, ERP apps, etc) your scope might be limited and it's much easier to find people.. >>So I am asking for help. If any of you guys are interested in giving project of BE >>level or >>ready to be our guide, then please reply. We are really confused and down at this time Well, you might as well think a little bit on what you really want to do rather than someone giving you the project....that makes much sense !! You probably should not be confused and should be enthusiastic enough to find current developments.. A very good way to start is to find *TODO lists* on popular opensource softwares like say, FIREFOX for instace... go to the website search for todo lists and dig in to it and probably you will find a lot of stuff.. Also, the most important thing that you should do first is lookup sourceforge.net it's a pool of everything you find under linux... start by searching in your area of interest and see what other people have done... if you can spot a few glitches try fixing them... if you think you can add more features to a particular application....you know something like that.. So, slowly you would know what you want and you will not have a problem. I am giving you some links http://code.google.com/soc/2007/ in this website there are lot of softwares listed and each of them has (ideas) click on that and proceede forward. As far as fedora is concerned just read this http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraBounties The most important thing that i want to say as far as writing code & doing projects is concerned is "there is only a point of writing code if someone is going to use it, else there is not use of writing!!!" The real experience:- As i told you i recently completed my engineering and believe me... the external was least interested to know what i had done... the thing that he was looking for was *conceptual clarity*, so get your concepts right !! Thank you, May you have a great experience with linux and help others as well !! -- Rohan Dighe Fedora Ambassador India. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RohanDighe -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
