-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > Bang on the spot, Gora. I don't think after this Bhavi should have > any confusions. > > Not at all.. See one thing i have observed while i go to a talk is > mainly students ask whether there is recognition if we do something > for the community without having a page which describes the team > participation and sort of stuff?(I mean contributing locally) > because of the fact that many engineering students will have on > campus placements and there the people who come as interviewers ask > for proof of contribution if he/she has done so... Recognition is achieved naturally as you contribute more and more. FOSS doesn't believe in paper certificates a lot, what we believe are solid contributions in terms of code, docs, translation, support etc. Thus, in FOSS world, the way to prove your contribution is to show the code you wrote, projects you contributed, documents you wrote etc. It is our duty to make the students understand this difference if we are going to talk them and motivate them for contributing to FOSS.
In case of placements, rather than showing numerous paper certificates it will be more effective to boldly say that your projects are in sourceforge or google-code and they can download, install and try them if they want. Also you can proudly say they this-number-of-users benefited from your contribution, which is not possible in non-FOSS scenario. Btw, I do not think those who come for on-campus placements mind a lot about projects you do etc. Their recruitment process is something different which concentrates on various other things like aptitude, communication etc. than in terms of contribution by code or other means. This is the case in most companies which turn up for campuses though there might be some exceptions. ==IMPORTANT== Please chop off those portions of earlier mails that you do not directly reply to and have only those few lines which you specifically reply to. Similarly, if you are just adding your points and need not have the earlier post for quoting please remove it and just maintain the subject line to be on the same thread. Else, if you do as you did now, you mails will end up for moderation request as it will be too big than the normal allowed mail size in the list. It is an additional task for the mail admin and mods to check your mail and approve it every time. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [web] http://technofreak.in [blog] blog.technofreak.in [photos] photos.technofreak.in [irc] teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile] BLR +919845446647 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHKDtCk4vYYS/wECYRAsl8AJ0T5Pju+A1C/muXFEaIpcRkNwzjEQCgoA0d 4zFkbTm5km2+Cob++dmfB8A= =FTw8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
