[openbeos] Re: How can we recruit more programmers ?

On 11 Aug 2003 at 15:49, RAY MARTIN wrote:

> Good or Bad idea to send emails to university computer science departments
> asking if they could contribute to the kernel ?  Isn't this the linux way?

Hello Ray,

I don't know if it's the Linux way or not, but I think it would hurt more 
than it could help. I am not sure about the situation at universities in 
the US or other countries, but it seems to me that hardly any CS faculty 
here in Germany actually teaches students to code (and why should they? 
In fact, CS and programming really don't have too much in common).

So, I'm quite sure our postmaster would put you on our internal blacklist 
and the mail would be considered spam. There are so many mails arriving 
on the central address of our "Fachschaft" (students' branch of the CS 
dept.) that want to point us in a certain direction or give mild hints... 
Most of it has to be ignored, and is. It's more important to (as an 
example) answer questions from foreign students.

Don't you think that those CS students who like to code as a hobby will 
find the project themselves? If you want to reach potential programmers, 
try to "just be there" in some of the higher-level programming 
newsgroups, publish the occasional essay on /. or something like that 
(don't we even have a PR person? Not sure atm...)

  Jürgen

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