Sindhu, I am a student of Dept. of Physics, and our dept has a bunch of teachers who also happen to be open source enthusiasts. They have written their own programs to automate the tedious calculations, and obviously, they are on linux machines. In our computer basics course, we are exposed to Linux 'only'. We learn Octave (not mathematica or something like that). We learn gnuplot, not Origin. We learn LATEX, not MS Word. Almost all the machines run on linux in our dept. Linux Habba was held in our dept itself.
This semester, my friends and myself are automating some calculations in Python, under the guidance of Prof. Sridhar (he is the one who introduced me to MyLUG). Our project reports should be in 'Latex', its a condition. His slides are always prepared on Linux machines. All machines in his lab run on Linux. So, this is the environment in Physics dept. If you find CS a bit boring, you can spend some time in our dept, which is just behind the CS:) On 13 Apr, 23:02, Sindhu Sundar <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, this was the kind of precise feedback i was looking for! > > Thanks to all who chipped in their views also :) > > -Sindhu S > sindhu-s.com > +91-9449242622 > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Shashishekhar S > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Sindhu, > > > A couple of points. > > > 1. None of us here have any direct experience studying at the CS Dept. UoM, > > hence I don't think you can expect any first hand info about the FOSS > > activity/environment at the UoM from the list. > > > 2. Over the years, we've conducted several MyLUG meets, seminars, talks etc > > in Mysore and we haven't had any participation from either students/faculty > > of the CS Dept, UoM - not that CS depts of other colleges in our city > > participated. > > > 3. In my personal (limited) interactions, the people at the department are > > more agnostic towards technology than ignorant or discouraging. > > > 4. That said, the University has very vibrant and demanding Linux > > user/hacker communities in departments including Physics, Library & Info > > Science, Statistics, etc. Also, people at the computer center have been > > supposedly active on the localisation initiatives. So, you can expect to > > interact with atleast a number of clueful people - esp. Prof. Sridhar and > > his band of merry students ;-) > > > 5. As hoped by several posters, we always look for clueful people who get > > into these departments as faculty/students to push the agenda of hackerism > > and of open sourceM-b-M-bFree Software and Open Source and Standards in > > these places. And after all these years, I've wisened up not to expect too > > many radical changes from these places. > > > Summing up, you can't expect a FOSS enlightened immediate environment, > > though you'll have sufficient breezes occasionally. > > > So, all the best with your hunt. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
