On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Debayan Banerjee <debayanin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to ask Arindam and Subhodip if they will be in Durgapur
at the
time of Mukti.
Additionally, please ask what they would like to talk about and
show-off during Mukti if they are in Durgapur.
>
> barring Debayan, Shreyank and
> Roshan,
You forgot Rangeen.
Indeed I did and, my apologies to Rangeen on that score.
When I left college last year, there were 2 competing trends that my
batch
had infused. One was free software, where Shreyank and I had made some
inroads, and the second was TopCoder or similar online programming judges
where Swapnil Sonawane and Rajat achieved milestones. As it turns out,
Swapnil and Rajat ended up getting jobs on campus that paid the best (upto 3
times what Shreyank or I get!!).
I might not be comprehending this properly. Why would participating in
online coding contests be a deterrent to contributing to Free and Open
Source Software ? Although, considering the part within parenthesis,
if that is how it is projected, will obviously skew the participation
in a way that nothing can counter.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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