Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You mean like possible career opportunities in an open source > environment? That would be great and truly inspiring for students. I > believe the conference must give emphasis to students because they are > the future of open source (successful or not) in this country. The > speakers must be able to give enlightening talks and inspire the > students to take open source not as an alternative but as a career > choice/path as they shape their own future. > > This can be done in a panel discussion to make it more credible.
Indeed. Essays from Paul Graham[1] can be a big influence on this. Another thing that maybe of interest maybe a discussion on dispelling myths and bad press about open source; I figure a *LOT* of people are still under the impression that you can't make money out of FOSS, or even out of programming. Footnotes: [1] http://www.paulgraham.com -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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