JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm all up for this. AFAIK, most CS/IT students outside of the major > schools don't have even the slightest notion of FOSS or the career > opportunities in FOSS. Heck, not a lot of students who know about > Linux are willing to learn it just because they think of it as a > dead-end careerwise (IMHO).
Indeed. Recently I had a fortuitous opportunity to meet a student from UP Los BaÃos taking up CS; he told me they took up Linux during his freshman term (related to Java and Apache stuff). Then after that, their school reverted to Windows because they've purchased the proper licenses, and dumped Linux along with it. He was keen on learning more about FOSS, and we chatted a while about it (considering that he was originally interested on inquiring about our Summer Camp program for kids ;). And having a spare Ubuntu Warty i386 CD set on hand, I gave that to him, and wished him well on his (re)newfound experience. Hopefully, there ought to be something like this in the next PhilOSC. -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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