[glug-t] Re: Octagon Opensource Labs .

Hi there,
(Preface: even though this topic is NIT-T specific, I
think its ok to talk about it here, after all GLUG-T
was born in NIT-T).

Anything you can use those expensive 24/7 one-of-kind
facility in India for producing some useful free
software is going to bring credit to NIT-T.

As a Communication engineer, I would like NIT-T people
to contribute some technical stuff to free software.
Like I mentioned earlier there are lots of CS stuff
on the Internet. Especially running & maintaining
free software projects are hard, personally I have 
had about 10+ projects all of which completely failed,
as in gathering momentum, my personal contribution
etc, so I think you guys CS folks need to work on real
code that way, we can contribute something that has 
a lifetime beyond your interest in the project,
and simultaneously contribute to the FOSS environment.

As for NIT-T's strength it lies in engineering. I make

no bones about it, if we tried something fancy or 
try to show-the-world-something I dont think we'd get 
far, given the official-apathetic-interest, and the
pressures of student life.

So, if you guys can pick up some high profile or
useful 
or some-FOSS-project-youd-like-to-work-on and start
writing patches and become productive, then maybe
it makes sense to call it so.

I know its really sexy and glamorous to run your 
own FreeSoftware project, but who will use it?

So get the rules straight:
If we want to have -FUN-ONLY- then go start your 
own project.
If we want to have some useful contribution and 
credit: then struggle with code, submit patches,
get kicked off, resubmit and live the FOSS life.

I have about some 40000+ lines of code from 2 certain
projects which are in the danger of falling apart,
simply because I donot have time to manage it (nor
does
anybody else not surprisingly).

So my strong advice is for all you buddy/already
developers who havent read  ( I know taggy you 
write code for Open Office, its not personal)

1. Contributing patches (diff / patch)
   http://cryptnet.net/fdp/prog/patch.html

2. Using CVS / SVN
   
3. Learning netiquitte on mailing lists

4. Writing useful  nice & fun code.

So again the bottom line is, if you want to make 
a *difference* to the FOSS world you need to open
the editor, download the code, patch it and send it.

Everything else is going to just 'Lip Service'.

Thanks
Muthiah Annamalai





--- "S.Theyagarajan " <theyaga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi ,
>      This is in continuation of Muthiah's proposal
> of a octagon Development
> center. I would just like it to be called Octagon
> Opensource labs.
> We would build in-house software projects (free
> softwares).Which would
> mainly cater to the needs of  the institute people
> but again we can put it
> to the world too .
> * Currently we have a couple of people working on a
> Website creator,which is
> intended to create homepages by students on nitt
> server
> 
> * A Codelabs Project ( online Judge) is already up
> there finished , probably
> we can start with these projects and have a
> developer community  working on
> these and also bring up new project proposals which
> are more CS eccentric
> like OS,Kernel ,Office,Databases.
> 
> While this gives an opportunity for many people in
> the campus to get in to
> opensource development ,quality software's arent far
> away with some
> wonderful programmers on campus. And as Duke
> University has managed to have
> a Opensource lab running and also developing custom
> OS based on the GNU  to
> cater specifically to the University academia.
> 
> 
> * It would be great if all of you can give inputs ,
> to me this looks a nice
> idea. and i was just thinking if we could start off
> with this along with
> Swatantra. :)
> 
> * lets discuss it here :)
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