On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Sugandha Naolekar sugandha.n87@gmail.com wrote:
Are there some stipendary cool projects available to be worked on, which has some kind of mentorship and I will get a liberty of working on it on only weekends? It will provide me following:
Cool definitely, Stipendary, is that a word? I assume you mean you want a stipend for your work. Not possible in most FOSS projects since most people work on it for free during their spare time, much like you're volunteering to do.
- Learning with all the possible trial and error and experiments by playing around with it.
That is called 'hacking'. it's what all of us 'hackers' do, so you'll definitely get this. Not to be confused with 'crackers' of course.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subculture%29
for context on this.
- A platform to go into the technological world one-level up.
This totally depends on what level you are on right now.
- A leverage added into the profile.
This is very subjective too, since it depends how you want to 'leverage' the advantage you get out of FOSS contribution. A lot of us use it as a platform to learn stuff and implement cool things. These implementations give us visibility, which in turn gets us jobs/paid projects to work on.
if you're looking to add it into your resume so that the bigwigs in Indian IT (TCS, Infy, etc.) notice then it won't help. Many companies do not really understand FOSS and motivations of a programmer to contribute to FOSS.
- Justified credibility for the work that would be delivered in the form of stipend.
Credibility in the FOSS world is recognition, not money. You will be acknowledged publicly for your work in the form of copyright notices, blog posts, references, etc.
Looking forward to Anticipatory options !!
If stipend is not necessary, you have a multitude of options. Start by reading code:
https://sourceforge.net/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join http://kde.org/community/getinvolved/ http://www.gnome.org/community/ http://www.xfce.org/development/?PHPSESSID=a38a8a169f0a66afa71b83a984aa72ac
to name a few.