We also have the Sun Club in University of Calcutta, along with a Microsoft Campus Club. I sure hope that Fedora can start something like that. A club ensures regular meetings and all. The running cost is negligible. Our Administration is very open to such clubs and UG type of things. from, Bigyan Bhar Check out my Blog : <a href="http://naygib.blogspot.com/">http://naygib.blogspot.com/</a> Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. --- Albert Einstein Imagination is the mother of creativity --- D.Tamal <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:59 PM, ankur sinha <<a href="mailto:sanjay_ankur@yahoo.co.in">sanjay_ankur@yahoo.co.in</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, The idea is really great.. Im a college going student just entering 3rd semester in Computer sciences .. and am already looking for programmes and training to add to my CV for a better job.. My college, Manipal Institute of technology, Manipal, India, has just recently become a part of the Sun academic Initiative, which has some perks.. Such an educational programme from Fedora would be more than a dream come true.. A lot of us go through books and material but teaching yourself is not as efficient as a mentor telling you what to do and helping you apply your knowledge practically.. Please give this programme thought.. A few hours a week will be enough from the mentors and there will be plenty of students who are interested and want to learn and contribute.. Ankur --- On Wed, 18/6/08, Aditya Sharma <<a href="mailto:adityaksharma@gmail.com">adityaksharma@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > From: Aditya Sharma <<a href="mailto:adityaksharma@gmail.com">adityaksharma@gmail.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students. > To: <a href="mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> > Date: Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 2:30 PM <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> this is a nice idea, but at the end of the day, there has to > be something > credible in the community like google summer of code or the > like to attract > participation from college students, lets not forget they > might be willing > to contribute but they wont unless it also helps them build > a credible CV, > so there has to be a community wide effort to integrate > students into the > main stream, the mentoring program is a great idea, and can > integrate > students but if we really want this to pick up we need to > have a massive > movement and competition among the students themselves to > be able to > contribute, and the winning contributions can win some sort > of certificates > or some monetary prize or the like, a competition will > bring in better > talent and consequently better contributions, this in no > way is a > replacement for the regular fix a bug and move up the > ladder routine but > this can occasionally like once a year or so could bring in > some good talent > and encourage participation. > > Regards > > Aditya Kumar Sharma > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, "Sankarshan > (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" < > <a href="mailto:foss.mailinglists@gmail.com">foss.mailinglists@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > susmit shannigrahi wrote: > > > > Generally the final/pre-final year engineering > students need to do > >> some project work on a topic. > >> What I personally saw that they desperately search > for one. > >> > >> we can make a lot of new contributors if we > provide them with a > >> project to work, some guidence > >> and may be a certificate at the end. 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