[Ilugc] [OT] Volunteering - ways and means
- From: parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx (Parthan SR)
- Date: Fri Jun 20 08:51:44 2008
sivaji j.g wrote:
because the foobar company which recruits the students has got nothing
to do
with FOSS, obviously he/she will loose interest .Most of job related thread
appearing in this mailing list are focusing on experienced guys , this
shows that you are not going opportunity to newbies so don't raise this
statement again :P
If you count the number of FOSS jobs in this mailing list to the number
of FOSS jobs appearing in all Indian mailing lists to the actual number
of FOSS jobs available through contacts, it's something around 1:5:10.
You can get a FOSS job if you are pretty active in the community and
have fair amount of contribution (not just in code, participation also
counts). How do you think many of us got jobs? I got my first
programming job just that I wrote a blog post of basic MYSQl stuff in
GNU/Linux and it was useful to someone who was running a startup ;)
dont blame him , this is situation of most of the student .they read just to
score marks in examation .our formula for mask is
mark=subheadings + diagram + presentation .
Mark has got nothing to do with concept .Even the student who scores more
90% dont remember / understand any concepts .Even the staff member who
correct our papers forcing us to use the examples/diagram given in the
prescribed book .
We all know that you do your BE just for getting a better job and we
also know that till the mass recruiting MNCs exists and continue their
current method of recruitment this is not going to change. It's not just
enough if you read your prescribed books and score marks, once you are
out of the college and on your first job not many care about them. Then,
what matters is how much you know and what all you can do? As you have
wasted the wonderful years at college, where you neither got your basics
right not spend the free time to learn and practice something useful you
have nothing much in your hands.
He did all those tags, but he could not remember those tags after some
time..
This shows that he is not interested .
So you remember everything you studied in your 3/4 years of engineering
till now? ;)
obviously , you are dumping too many things on him .how he can learn HTML ,
php , database in such a short time ? This is the reason why students treat
FOSS as a Alien :P . Dont force them to learn foss rather attract them to
your side .
He was trying to teach the boy some basics and an initiative, and not
trying to make the-best-in-the-city web developer. You should take each
of them a day to learn and be comfortable with the basics of each, and
the rest of the time you try to apply them and build something, in the
process learn more and correct yourselves of things you got wrong or
couldn't understand. HTML, PHP and Database is not a big deal at all,
mean the basics.
Ask him whether he is really interested in learning foss . Install a basic
Linux distro like ubuntu ,let him use that for a month or two . Later you
can teach about Linux command , xxamp server , mailing list ,forms etc
Ok, lemme ask you a question. What do you mean by "FOSS" and "learning
FOSS"? This is one question is always ask people who speak about FOSS,
learning FOSS, FOSS jobs etc. and most of the time they have a pretty
absurd definition for them.
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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