On Sunday 12 Oct 2008, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > During the Software Freedom Day discussion @ Delhi, there was a point > that how we can work towards further promoting/increasing penetration > of Free Software in India. There was a suggestion to start a Contest > at student level to encourage them to work on Free Software/ > GNU/Linux systems.
Sounds like a good idea ;-) > [snip] > * Guideline for what kind of projects should students work on? IMO this is the critical part of the contest. We shouldn't limit students to only programming projects. There's all sorts of other stuff that can be done, the objective being to involve students with all sorts of skills -- programming, artistic, writing, analytical, etc. into the process. For instance, some of the activities that the contest could cover include: - Making fonts - Translations - Comparisons of distributions, or FOSS vs non-FOSS environments and packages - Writing user guides and HOWTOs for other students - Application of FOSS in environments that the students interact with regularly (school management systems, grading, testing, etc.) - Logo, poster and CD cover design - Hardware/robotics/innovative uses of hardware I agree it would be difficult to write a statement of objectives given a large array of possibilities, but we can throw up suggestions and leave it to the students to come up with their own ideas, the only proviso being that they get the project approved by us before commencing (so we can decide whether it's relevant to FOSS, and guide the student into making it more relevant if it isn't). > * How to engage colleges for this contest? > * Deadline for final draft of the proposed contest? > > The LINUX For You magazine already organizes a FOSS India Award. In > fact, a few of the awards could be made exclusive for the students > category. Umm, do you really want to club an amateur effort aimed at raising FOSS awareness in schools with some corporate awards? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
