[Ilugc] Advocating foss for final year college project
- From: srini.it@xxxxxxxxx (Srinivasan Sundararajan)
- Date: Wed May 14 13:43:49 2008
On 5/14/08, Parthan SR <parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
senthilraja P wrote:
Thanks. Basically, even though the students are interested, they are
handicapped because of lack of basic skills required for a foss project.
Some example i can quote are:
* Lack of knowledge of SVN. (its one of basic operations in any FOSS
project)
* Lack of knowledge of IRC
* Lack of knowledge of Colloboration softwares. (like wiki, Project
Management etc)
we should have two levels:
(a) the really committed students could be initiated into svn, etc. [I feel
IRC is not a must -- Parthan pointed out some of the side effects.} and
workon "live" projrcts.
(b) others -- eager, but may have a variety of handicaps, and might drift
half-way -- could be brought thru a semi "bazaar" mode of open, but
not fully collaborative development :
commit the code etc. to a wiki (e.g., nrcfosshelpline)
get guidance thru known mentors, report & discuss on regular basis
essentially work on an "exercise" project which could be a "sub-contract"
from an interested mentor.
this mode is ideal for 2nd & 3rd year students whocould mature to option (a)
in their final year. this may also enable widespread awarenes.
srinivasan, nrcfoss.
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