On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:54:51PM +0800, Migs Paraz wrote: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/27/207206&mode=thread > > Article is about contributing to free software. > > I'd like to bring up the possibility of doing "offshore" free software > work and training people who want to contribute to free software... back to > the PLUG training initiative... so that the Philippines could be a valuable > source of the world's free software pool. > > Want to think on this?
How will the training be done? Some scenarios on my mind: Would a classroom be necessary? Teach and learn by correspondence, I suppose. Maybe post questions to ph-prog as well. The curriculum. Would this be teacher-centric? Instructors giving out readings, machine problems, students passing assignments, teacher evaluates student's works. Clay and Mold model. Pangit. Would this be student-centric? "I'd like to start C right away. Python is for wimps. Give me a week to take in the basics, prof, then you give me some code to hack. Then tell me what you think of my hack." Or would it be project-centric? "Acme thingy is a good project. Let's make it with Python. The Ornery part would need Polka, so somebody has to learn the Phrack routine. Klingon component needs Flax library. Jags, you can pore over Sedgewick's book on this you know." BTW, who is eligible to join the training? Does he/she need to be an official member of PLUG? Can just a PLUG mailing list subscriber join, for instance? If it's going to be a Free Software project, should anyone be free to join and Time and Effort their only cost of membership? Benj -- Benjamin Oris Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ImagineAsia, Inc. http://www.imagineasia.com/ A Digital Animation Studio (632) 717 1111 loc. 222 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
