On 6/6/07, Jerome S. Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ariz Jacinto wrote: > > we also had this kind of conversation days ago but with a different > > focus which is, > > > > "is the local pool of F/OSS manpower sustainable?" > > We seem to be doing well at the Java front, although there is still > shortage. It is not much publicized but we do have a fair number of code > committers to certain open source projects (mostly under Apache license) > that revolves much on Java/J2EE/take your pick. >
Thats admirable. Keep up the good work! > The problem I think is that today's mindset of teaching is "if you enter > our school, we can get you a job abroad" or "take the fast track to your > career as a contact center professional" or something like that, so > there is no future capacity being made. > > There is a need to advocate software engineering via open source as a > fun and fruitful career to consider; to become experts and innovators in > various fields without leaving the country (the world has become > increasingly flat in certain areas); to become future entrepreneurs > themselves that can contribute to increasing capacity. > Actually almost all universities in Europe and US almost exclusively use open source in their computer science courses. I think programmers need to understand their customers too. They have to become the entrepeneurs themselves. Thats the only sustainable way to start an IT business in the Philippines that i know of. A friend of mine created a gps product out of his own pocket. He made the hardware and software for less than 100k php for three years and he can undercut imported products by 75 %. I figure that its possible to do that with a linux laptop too. -- Lay low and nourish in obscurity _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
