On Apr 8, 2005 11:11 AM, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
I'm all up for this. AFAIK, most CS/IT students outside of the major schools don't have even the slightest notion of FOSS or the career opportunities in FOSS. Heck, not a lot of students who know about Linux are willing to learn it just because they think of it as a dead-end careerwise (IMHO). -- JM Ibanez -- A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. -- Bertrand Russell ----- http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
