I agree with you on not using GSoC as the measure. It is only a crude measure. Just as others have in the past used Project Euler as a crude measure.
On the question of what we (software company people and lecturers) are going to do about it, my view is that we are doing our bit. I think I tried. More to the point, ask not what your country will do for you. And so on and so forth. In the last fews years I taught at Makerere I was always amazed how much students moaned about conditions, and yet were unable to see the opportunities presented to them. Of course this is normal human behaviour. The Faculty of Computing at Makerere has more Internet-connected computers than any other organisation in this country. And yet you always saw them doing Facebook! Then there was the small matter of your typical student's inability to leverage the Internet for learning purposes, despite your lecturer's best efforts. The short of it, Eugene, is that the hard reality of this world is that we owe you nothing. And yet one day you will leave that cosseted setting and we will demand a lot from you. What you are you doing do about that? P. On Sep 12, 2010, at 21:39, [email protected] wrote: > People write code to solve problems that are facing them, so how can you tell > a guy from Kihihi to code for a robot? The guy thinks that robots only exist > in movies. My solution is maybe we should not gauge ourselves on Google > summer of code and try to write codes to solve our current problems. > I am sure that universities abroad receive huge sums of money from their > governments to do what they do and yet for us even getting internet is a > challenge. So maybe we should stop looking at them and look at ourselves. > Some of the people complaining about this are lecturers and people who own > software companies, so what are you going to do about that yourselves?? > Eugene MUNYANEZA > Makerere University > Faculty of Computing and Information Technology > Bachelor of Science in Computer Science > Year 3 > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
