On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:35 AM, prashant k v <kvprashant@...> wrote:
> Hi,
> just few suggestion typically&nbsp;students are more computer savy
> in&nbsp;MP. the first motive of students is to get a decent placement.
Agreed...
But the kind of placements students get ,is the question?

> and&nbsp;a minority group is to gain knowldege in programming.
> &nbsp; 1st group is least bothered about linux, as companies don specifically
ask
> questions on linux and encourage more ctl+c, ctl+v attitude.
> &nbsp;

This copy-paste attitude is the problem and our aim should be to discourage it.
Students have enough time here but they do not utilize it.

> 2nd&nbsp;group is the&nbsp;one which&nbsp;we need to target.get people to
> understand benifits of GNU/linux. &nbsp;> &nbsp;
> most important thing that a student wants is help in how to learn
> programming and and help for major/minor project.

Right.We need to spread the awareness of the open-source and help the
students to understand the that culture. To be frank we do not have
enough mentors in Jabalpur who can help the students to make good
technical projects.Even if there are some, they do it commercially.

On the other hand we have very good mentors available in the online community.
I think we need to work as a channel which can forward the students to
the world of open-source.

> &nbsp; last but not the least, mostly all disucssions in linux world ends up
heavy
> discussions on licensing,GPL/bsd, MS bashing. its better we keep these
> things , encourage people to use linux at the same time if required help
> them write open source softw.
Experience people enjoy talking about licensing,GPL/bsd, MS bashing etc..
For students it doen't matter muchl. We should definitely encourage
people to use Linux....having some kind of intall-fest will definitely
be helpful here.

Neependra
http://techieneeps.blogspot.com/