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. 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?
Well, FOSS companies (at least those I know) are not IT majors like the
ones you have listed (who recruit in mass just to have considerable
workforce numbers to bag big projects). Most FOSS companies concentrate
on providing a very specific solution or support for some widely used
FOSS software stack like a LAMP stack etc. Hence they have a very
limited workforce and mostly multi-faced as in you do not concentrate on
one part of the stack or the worst care one part of a tool (like you
would do in a IT Major) but get an opportunity to have your hands on
more on them (like a Scripting language to code the program login,
Database design and management, UI development either desktop GUI or
web-based GUI, source code management with a version control, a little
bit of administration (if you're a bit lucky you would be managing
servers as well) and a lot more. Because the shop is small, though the
job requires people who can be trusted to get the job done, they only
take in people who can prove that they are worth being appointed. It
either means you've a similar prior work experience, even it means
working in a startup, or at least good amount of contribution to
projects in similar areas to the company's requirement. Well, we can
understand about the former part as you require someone to give you a
job at first place, but the latter part is entirely in your hands. We
too have been in college and we really know how much time gets wasted in
stuffs which could have been otherwise used for the before said purpose.
The time you're a student is wonderful period when you can learn,
experiment and spend time on things. If you reason out your routine
college activities as a reason not to do this, then it's you who're
losing the game. Also, blaming the faculty or the syllabus is going to
take you nowhere, because are you ready to be a Teacher after passing
out? No, you want to join a big s/w company and earn loads. If you can
have this attitude and/or dream, why shouldn't your teachers too have
the same dream? Students are never justified to run away, putting the
blame on faculties. You have to be self-initiative, should work on your
own personal interest and indeed spend late hours learning and
experimenting things instead of wasting it on other sutffs. You should
take your own effort, find out ways and means to contribute to a project
of your interest and develop skills. At the same time, do not expect
people to spoon feed you in the FOSS community. Many of us contribute on
our personal left over time and we can't do much rather than clearing
doubts, pointing you to resources or giving feedbacks on your work.
Well, the road is not with roses and stepping on the thorns is worth the
pain if you consider your future.
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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<blog> http://blog.technofreak.in
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