There is an African centric version at http://code.google.com/codejam/africa
Perhaps this is why there aren't any folk from EA in the bigger contest. Plus, it's a contest and not a sure thing. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:51 PM, faizal seif <[email protected]> wrote: > Ya ithink thats the true idea, am faisal and am due to graduate next > year.. but i lack updates, there is knowledge on things like > that..Some good people bt they dont know. > > On 9/11/10, Janosch Maier <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think the interest of the students is there. At least that was my >> impression at the LUG+Google+Python event. >> >> To me it seems, as if the most people (in general) and students (in this >> special case) don’t know that things like the GSoCs are there and not >> just for make Google look good, but as a possibility for them. >> >> Janosch >> >> Am 10.09.2010 23:40, schrieb Peter C. Ndikuwera: >>> I'm a contributor on Amarok and I've seen some of the GSoC proposals for >>> improving it. At the risk of generalization, I haven't met a university >>> student doing IT/Computing who can express themselves well enough to >>> write any of the many proposals for improving Amarok. >>> >>> The other issue I've seen is that our local students don't believe they >>> can actually *compete* with "those out there". (This is a broader >>> sociological issue I think) I've received huge disbelief when I've >>> talked about some of the OSS projects I've debugged on, or contributed >>> to. And, in a wider context, I've not contributed on any project where >>> there was another African contributor! Hmm.... >>> >>> Maybe as Badru's said, we need to find a way to encourage our local >>> students to engage in Open Source. Maybe LUG doing something at >>> universities like a LUG Summer of Code? :-) I'd be willing to contribute >>> a little money to that. >>> >>> P. >>> >>> "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" >>> -- Robert Frost >>> >>> >>> On 10 September 2010 23:40, Tim Schofield <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> The thing with the GSoC is that the rewards are large. There is the >>> USD5000 for a few months work, and the GSoC is one of the main >>> recruiting methods for Google. Thats why its strange no one seems >>> interested >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> On 10 September 2010 21:18, <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> > Peter >>> > >>> > You are probably very close to the truth. I do believe we have >>> many brilliant minds in the region however they are not well focused >>> and I suppose that responsibility falls on pioneers like you to help >>> show how these guys can contribute. >>> > >>> > The sharing spirit is not common unfortunately so the task is to >>> find ways of creating. >>> > >>> > Regards >>> > >>> > >>> > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from Zain Uganda >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: "Peter C. 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