2009/8/7 senthilraja P <technocr...@gmail.com>: > We all know that open source projects require persistence, consistency, and > long term planning. Wordpress is being developed for the past 4 years, and > drupal for more than 6 years. So as all other open source projects like > phpbb, open bravo etc.. But new people come and develop modules for wordpress .Some also leave ,they might not be maintaining their modules .So new students can find such modules and start maintaining them . The students can just look at the project(module) statistics and releases . It will explain lot of things :) Lemme tell you one incident . I heard in one IRC channel ( dont remember the name ) that one guy wanted a wordpress feature . You know by evening that feature was implemented as a wordpress module , thats the power of FOSS !!
> I hope, like minded persons in ILUGC can come forward and guide the students > towards major open source projects. Don't hope :P They will definitely come in ILUGC !! >Atleast, if each college could house > one major open source projects, (Whether existing, or new concept), > subsequent batches coming out of that college, can contribute a module to > it, and enrich that software in to a useful thing. This is a good thing but wont the faculty be forcing one student into one module or one language or platform which he may not be interested in . Hence I could suggest a pool of project ideas and mentors like what NRCFOSS has did . http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/ProjectIdeas http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/FellowshipMentors The faculty should help the student in choosing a project / direction . When I mean "help" it should be guidance but not enforcing a particular technology to the student . This will really help the student to do whatever he likes. It may also bring out some great innovations in FOSS :) Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri www.pavithran.org _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
