On the bright side, I observed some schools are open to learn up to date relevant technologies, particularly FOSS, we may also have to reach out to them to help the students have equal footing to the opportunities offered by the industry. The next question I think would be the cost of reaching out, especially to rural schools in the provinces.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Zak Elep <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Rogelio Serrano > <[email protected]> wrote: > > How active is the open source development scene in the Philippines? > Writing > > open source code is the best way to learn computer science and I'm still > at > > it 14 years on. With cost of a college education being a colossal bubble > I'm > > wondering if our fellow Filipinos even engage in it. > > There's some (new) blood doing their own thing now. See folks like > those from the Philippine Tech Hackers,[0] and other local programming > language groups like Manila.js[1] or Python.ph[2] for example, who are > a rather eclectic bunch with a lot of interesting code now on Github > (mostly libs/modules for web, but there's also some for games as > well.) > > [0]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/214546845336651/ > [1]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/javascriptdevelopersph/ > [2]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pythonph/ > > > Cheers, > > zakame > > -- > Zak B. Elep || zakame.net > 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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