<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I don't think certificates are any good to attract students who will/"want to" become contributors. Looking someone's own name in the project's website or in the Author's page gives much more confidence and "feel good" attitude than any certificate. All the developers we know , we know by their work, not by looking into some certificate. I know personally how the students run behind a printed copy of certificate, but bringing the same attitude into FOSS development is not going to help us. </blockquote></div> yes what kushal said is right i dont think students need a printed certificate to prove their work the amount of knowledge they gain are more important to be considered your idea of helping the student is a nice thought being a student i had no one like Abhradip to help me learn FOSS so Abhradip do train students in the FOSS contribution, but instead of certification guide them on any particular project for eg: a student interested in doing guification can work on the KDE project, or can guide students to do some innovative projects like in pidgin there is no vedeo conferencing till now (i guess) so if you can guide a student to do it then the recognition he gets is more significant then the certifications hope you come out with the best -- (correct me if iam wrong) magesh Life is "just tryin out things to see if they work" <a href="http://magesh.geexhq.com/">http://magesh.geexhq.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/mageshcse">http://twitter.com/mageshcse</a>