[Ilugc] [OT] Volunteering - ways and means
- From: logic.linux@xxxxxxxxx (Srikanth Lakshmanan)
- Date: Fri Jun 20 14:03:24 2008
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Arun Khan <knura@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I disagree, experience is not just time put in foobar company. A truly
motivated person would keep learning open source on his/her own time
and raise the bar of his/her knowledge. Many open source contributors
have regular jobs. This is also experience and I would definitely
consider such a person for job openings. In fact, I have recruited
persons who exhibited a fairly good understanding of Linux even though
they did not have any degree or experience.
Yes, I agree to this. I infact learnt more on collaboration tools like
wiki,forum,trac,openfire only when i installed ubuntu on my office PC(thanks
to the freedom my company gave unlike most foobar companies which require
approvals to install firefox) and learnt them and after 2 months finally
made it as a successfull collobaration portal which the planned sharepoint
portal tried to achieve.Though I am working on microsoft products, I goto
FOSS tools/solutions to make my day easy when i am restricted due to
licenses.
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Regards,
Srikanth L
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