Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-08 Thread Vinod Parthasarathy
Hi, I joined the ILUGC mailing list recently. This is my first email to ILUGC. Since we are on the topic of syllabus, let me mention one important point that I have not seen mentioned so far in engineering circles. I have seen the syllabus of many engineering colleges that come under Anna

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread senthilraja P
On 7/8/09, Arulalan T tarula...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all, I planned to do all the following syllabus projects using Ruby On Rails . But my Staffs are not supporting to do this semester projects in other Languages. I just wanted to share, that a team of final year students from

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Krishna
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:44 AM, senthilraja P technocr...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/8/09, Arulalan T tarula...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all, So, considering the immense support from this ILUGC group, i feel, you should be able to persuade your HOD to allow you. I also faced similar situation

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Arun SAG
Hi, On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: hi all: while there is considerable resistance from HoDs and other staff members re FOSS projects, there have been a number of projects done in the past three years. I have been requesting the students /

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: while there is considerable resistance from HoDs and other staff members re FOSS projects, there have been a number of projects done in the past three years. I have been requesting the students / staff to give me brief details, but the response has been sparse and sporadic. i think it is

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread pavithran
2009/8/7 Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com: Please do not top post. Please don't bottom post :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Trimming_and_reformatting Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri www.pavithran.org ___ To unsubscribe, email

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread pavithran
2009/8/7 Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com: I should have trimmed the long message :P.Any way thanks for pointing it. You again didn't do it right . Your message has a symbol which suggests that its a quote and there is no message LOL Anyways I am having fun nitpicking .. Thanks :) Regards,

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread pavithran
2009/8/7 senthilraja P technocr...@gmail.com: I just wanted to share, that a team of final year students from Mahendra engg college had done their final year projects in RoR.  They created a project in rubyforge, for this, and uploaded their files in the SVN.

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread pavithran
2009/8/7 Krishna mail2kr...@gmail.com: I also faced similar situation for a mini-project , they gave me a list of topic , all were quite old ideas like library management, reservation system, etc, But  I was allowed to do project in FOSS. Not all the lecturer may know about FOSS and stuff.

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread pavithran
2009/8/7 Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com: hi all: while there is considerable resistance from HoDs and other staff members re FOSS projects, there have been a number of projects done in the past three years.  I have been requesting the students / staff to give me brief details, but

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread senthilraja P
On 8/7/09, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: hi all: if possible, we could have a demo on select projects on the software freedom day, may even give prizes for the top three or so ; more importantly, announce that FOSS projects to be done during 2009-10 even sem will get

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, My thoughts below: --- On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:15 PM, senthilraja Ptechnocr...@gmail.com wrote: | We all know that open source projects require persistence, \-- Yes. --- | consistency, \-- Too generic a statement. --- | and long term planning. \-- Not necessarily required, IMO. --- |

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread pavithran
2009/8/7 Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.com: | and also the fact that our academic project | syllabus is so premature. \-- Syllabus is ok. Just that people don't know how, and where to apply it in practice. I am not sure if we could say that the syllabus is ok though I agree that a

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread pavithran
2009/8/7 senthilraja P technocr...@gmail.com: We all know that open source projects require persistence, consistency, and long term planning.  Wordpress is being developed for the past 4 years, and drupal for more than 6 years.  So as all other open source projects like phpbb, open bravo

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 08 Aug 2009 12:56:54 am pavithran wrote: We all know that open source projects require persistence, consistency, and long term planning. Wordpress is being developed for the past 4 years, and drupal for more than 6 years. So as all other open source projects like phpbb, open

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:39 AM, pavithranpavithra...@gmail.com wrote: | I am not sure if we could say that the syllabus is ok though I agree | that a student could definitely make a lot of the current syllabus. \-- That is where most people have the wrong conception, IMO. A syllabus is

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, My thoughts below: --- On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Arulalan Ttarula...@gmail.com wrote: | i accept your advice with pleasure. | | i started to do proj in Vb and Oracle itself in lab. \-- This is a workaround. Not a solution to the problem. Shrinivasan had this problem when he studied

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-18 Thread Ravi Jaya
Arul, I planned to do all the following syllabus projects using Ruby On Rails . But my Staffs are not supporting to do this semester projects in other Languages. They preferred only VB and ORACLE , because they know that only. Even though I was fighted with them and finally, they

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-18 Thread Raman.P
--- On Sun, 19/7/09, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@debian.org wrote: From: Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@debian.org Subject: Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Arulalan T wrote: And the main problem with

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-09 Thread pavithran
2009/7/9 varadarajan narayanan rad.naraya...@gmail.com: Really i am very happy by seeing all of your support. The community always helps .. all you need to do is ask :D Glad that you asked . I call upon all engineering students in this list to mention various issues in the colleges related to

[Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-08 Thread Arulalan T
Hi to all, I am Arulalan . T doing Final year M.C.A in Saveetha Engg College , Chennai. Now I am studying fifth semester. This semester we have Software Project Management ( Theory Paper ). For this subject having one lab, namely called , Software Development Lab . In this lab, we have

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-08 Thread kish
Now I am studying fifth semester. This semester we have Software Project Management ( Theory Paper ). For this subject having one lab, namely called ,  Software Development Lab . In this lab, we have to do 10 small projects. Any front end tool (like VB, VC++, Developer 2000) etc Any

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-08 Thread R Rajendhran
From: Arulalan T tarula...@gmail.com To: ILUG-C ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in; tarulalan tarula...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, 8 July, 2009 10:48:56 PM Subject: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help Hi to all, I

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-08 Thread Arun SAG
Hi, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Arulalan T tarula...@gmail.com wrote: R. But now my HOD is opposing to that. He s asking me, while doing University Practical Examination, the External examiner will not accept your projects means, what can you do ? . what can i do ? Give me all

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-08 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Arulalan Ttarula...@gmail.com wrote: | I planned to do all the following syllabus projects using Ruby On Rails . | | what can i do ? | | Give me all your suggestions ! \-- If they and you are ready to release the source code under a F/OSS license, and if

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 09 July 2009 09:47:52 you wrote: --- On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Arulalan Ttarula...@gmail.com wrote: | I planned to do all the following syllabus projects using Ruby On Rails | . | | what can i do ? | | Give me all your suggestions ! \-- If they and you are ready to

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-07-08 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Kenneth Gonsalveslaw...@thenilgiris.com wrote: | no problem - we can give an official letter to HOD saying that we are willing to | guide him \-- Sounds good! @Arul: 1. Please confirm that you can release the source code under a F/OSS license. 2. Please