On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:35:19AM +0530, Sanket Medhi wrote:
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. 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 that would serve not only my purpose but also be a considerable contribution to the FOSS community. Any suggestions are welcome.
My B.E. project is located here(inspiration??): http://farazs.port5.com/ProjectReport.ps.gz This was in 2004. Our HoD(Fr. Agnel, Bandra) gave us after-hours access to a fully-networked lab and said: "It has to be something to do with clusters". As a result we had ample freedom in choosing the actual content ;-)
We did face the same issue with feasibility, so we started off with few specific and many vague/broad objectives - eventually narrowing it down to what we could fit into the available time. If you pick your own project, rather than
having it handed down by someone, you'll probably never know *exactly* where your going until you're half-way there.
If you really really want to contribute, you could adopt a dormant project from sourceforge or savannah which you find interesting. But I fear some evaluators may [not] understand the importance of your contribution.
Good luck, farazs