Chirag Anand wrote: > 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.
A reason could be that FOSS companies don't recruit in the volumes that other companies of the SWITCH group do. I know for sure that my company doesn't recruit in that numbers. So, sometimes campus recruitment time isn't the best times to get talking with the Placement Cell. A company (and especially a FOSS company) has to have somewhat different parameters when selecting and interviewing candidates. Some of these include looking at an existing portfolio of code (hint: they want to see code that is available via some repository checkout, not some project that is sitting their on your HDD). So, while you are a student start contributing to project(s). Learn how to produce open source software (take a read through producingoss.com) I work at a small company that does FOSS and we do recruit freshers who demonstrate ability and accomplishments (not necessarily measured in years of service) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ 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/
