[ubuntu-in] This is about Ubuntu Indian Members..

[Parthan S R]

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Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> Bang on the spot, Gora. I don't think after this Bhavi should have
> any confusions.
>
> Not at all.. See one thing i have observed while i go to a talk is
> mainly students ask whether there is recognition if we do something
>  for the community without having a page which describes the team
> participation and sort of stuff?(I mean contributing locally)
> because of the fact that many engineering students will have on
> campus placements and there the people who come as interviewers ask
>  for proof of contribution if he/she has done so...
Recognition is achieved naturally as you contribute more and more.
FOSS doesn't believe in paper certificates a lot, what we believe are
solid contributions in terms of code, docs, translation, support etc.
Thus, in FOSS world, the way to prove your contribution is to show the
code you wrote, projects you contributed, documents you wrote etc. It
is our duty to make the students understand this difference if we are
going to talk them and motivate them for contributing to FOSS.

In case of placements, rather than showing numerous paper certificates
it will be more effective to boldly say that your projects are in
sourceforge or google-code and they can download, install and try them
if they want. Also you can proudly say they this-number-of-users
benefited from your contribution, which is not possible in non-FOSS
scenario.

Btw, I do not think those who come for on-campus placements mind a lot
about projects you do etc. Their recruitment process is something
different which concentrates on various other things like aptitude,
communication etc. than in terms of contribution by code or other
means. This is the case in most companies which turn up for campuses
though there might be some exceptions.

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