On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Debayan Banerjee <debaya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to ask Arindam and Subhodip if they will be in Durgapur at the > time of Mukti. Additionally, please ask what they would like to talk about and show-off during Mukti if they are in Durgapur. >> >> barring Debayan, Shreyank and >> Roshan, > > You forgot Rangeen. Indeed I did and, my apologies to Rangeen on that score. > When I left college last year, there were 2 competing trends that my batch > had infused. One was free software, where Shreyank and I had made some > inroads, and the second was TopCoder or similar online programming judges > where Swapnil Sonawane and Rajat achieved milestones. As it turns out, > Swapnil and Rajat ended up getting jobs on campus that paid the best (upto 3 > times what Shreyank or I get!!). I might not be comprehending this properly. Why would participating in online coding contests be a deterrent to contributing to Free and Open Source Software ? Although, considering the part within parenthesis, if that is how it is projected, will obviously skew the participation in a way that nothing can counter. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
