On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:50:14PM +0800, Migs Paraz wrote (wyy sez):
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:40:23PM -0000, Ambrosio Berdijo Jr. wrote:
> > I think we got this Pinoy free software developers all wrong. I think we
> > have to start among ourselves. 
> 
> You mean, start on new projects from scratch?
>
not really. start convincing ourselves maybe?
 
> > And I must emphasize that you don't need a CS degree 
> > to be able to learn to write/modify programs. I write ugly hacks to sendmail,
> > top-2.0.7, etc. but they're MY original hacks. 
> 
> True, you don't need a CS degree, you just need programming knowledge which
> can be self-taught.  You do need a CS degree to understand code with
> algos though!!
>
but, you can do a jijo and read TAOCP from cover to cover and post an 
occasional question to ph-programmers?
 
> > Migs, if you build that Pinoy Sourcefourge, I'll post my "ugly" hacks.
> 
> a Sourceforge is quite hard with the CVS, forums, etc.... maybe we could start 
> with a static website for hosting projects?  I don't even know how to admin
> CVS, hehe...
>
maybe the ACENT people would be willing to manage the CVS for PLUG. we need
a machine though. CVS is part of the ACENT way of life as well as LaTeX, perl,
vi AND/OR emacs, ... and the occasional oops.

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