On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 03:35 +0530, Sanket Medhi wrote:
Hello friends,
I am in my sixth semester of the B.E. (I.T.) course right now. I am required to submit an abstract for my B.E. project within a month's time.
Good. I assume because you are posting to this list they'll be centered around GNU/Linux.
I am thinking over a few ideas but am not sure if they are feasible enough. So I need you guys to suggest me some good ideas for a project
Why don't you list your ideas for a start.
that would serve not only my purpose but also be a considerable contribution to the FOSS community. Any suggestions are welcome.
The important thing is to not get overambitious. Take a small but manageable task, plan, architect, test, develop and document well and come out with flying colors.
My project during B.Engg. suffered with exactly these symptoms. The HoD huddled some bright students together and made them program a Network Monitoring tools based on SNMP. Even code for ASN.1 encoding was to be written from scratch. The code grew beyond us and saw dwindling interest from projectees. Hell, my interest dwindled too. Finally a select few people got it through. There was still a lot of fire-fighting to be done in the code though.
Make sure you have your team members in confidence about what you are trying to acheive. Most of all communicate effictively. You'll see that in real life bad projects are a result of communications breakdown.
I am sure a lot of people on the list can give you great ideas. But it will all be good, if you could educate us about your and your teams interests and current skills.
Warm wishes and best of luck,
ah