Hi fellow, I am an ancient expat American who has lived in the Philippines for four years now. I am also a huge enthusiast of Open Source Software.
I want to point out that the big growth industry in the the Philippines is Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) or call centers. Many of these BPOs can and do use OSS. Check out for instance http://www.asterisk.org/ and http://www.crmsearch.com/open-source-crm.php There is a lot of Linux in the BPO environment. There are serious opportunities for knowledgeable System Admins and Developers. I am 72 now and have not coded in almost 4 years when I was using Django, Python, JQuery and github. If I were a young Filipino, I would start looking at jobs in the BPO industry and prep for them. Just 2 pesos from an old man. Good luck, Robert La Quey, PhD On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]>wrote: > Nice to know but this needs to scale. > > Even most Europe computer science grads can't get a job. Most of them work > in the food and beverage industry now. Most of the guys I started out > hacking Linux 14 years ago got 6 figure salaries for a while now but they > too had to work in a bar for more than half of that time. Now there is not > enough of them. > > Get them started in high school. And they don't even need to be taking > computer science. Just start contributing asap. Just write more or less a > hundred lines of code everyday on a fixed schedule. Theorizing how to write > good code is not good enough. > > We just need to get the message out there that they can program for low > cost. Even an old pentium will do. I even saw pentium fields ruggeds out > there that just gets kicked around. Even the teachers can teach themselves. > All they need to do is contribute and the job will come to them. Even from > abroad. But with enough developers in the Phil who needs to go abroad? > > The fact that most of our teachers haven't caught on to this is just too > bad. > > On 13 Jan 2014 02:11, "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 > > _________________________________________________ > 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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