I could not agree with Prakhar more... :) The points he has put up, are the things that we face in our colleges everyday, we see it happening but still we cant do anything about it. Like faculty using windoz, some of them do not even know what Linux is. They are teaching students windoz softwares. They are still using the good-old DOS based turbo c++ compiler (18 yrs old).
And its not that, we have not tried...we have recieved a lot of thrashing because of this. (I mean a LOT). But it takes something to change the system. We have done what was in our hands and will continue to do so in the future. But in the end, you do need to follow the college course structure. No matter, how deep you feel about FOSS or are contributing to it, you will only get testing/maintaining jobs. Its not that, we do not deserve to be in a thinking/product based job in which we are required to think and innovate and not act like burden-donkeys, but the fact that we only have these companies coming to our campuses. It is not our fault...that FOSS companies do not come on our door. Talking about off-campus jobs...everyone knows what happens there. Some 2500 people turn to give interviews for a vacancy of just 10-20. And i have seen it, written test papers are not even corrected fairly. Do you think, you can find some 10-20 deserving candidates out of 2500 in just 10 hours (max). Can you tell me, that so many FOSS companies are here on this mailing list but why you do not come to campuses?? Or why you do not take freshers (i may be wrong here), but i have seen job openings in LFY...not a single opening for freshers. Please tell me, where do we go (FOSS students) for gaining some experience? Ultimately, even if we go to companies like tcs, infy etc. we wont be getting any FOSS exposure there. Does that make me eligible for a placement in a FOSS company? Just becuase, we have been promoting FOSS/Linux in our colleges and have contributed something to FOSS and advocating and fighting for it, make us good enough for your firm? Do we even have an oppurtunity to realise our dreams? -- Regards Chirag Anand 4th Year, B.Tech Computer Science Department, JUIT Solan JUIT-LUG (Blog :http://techfreaks4u.com/blog) Linux User: 476783 anything weird is worth a try... _______________________________________________ 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/
