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. 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.
-- Regards, Sanket Medhi.
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:35:19AM +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. 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.
Every year I give projects at HBCSE, TIFR to work on free software projects. If you have an idea, you can discuss with me. If you dont have an idea then I can give you many.
Nagarjuna
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
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
Thanks a lot everyone for helping and motivating a student like me. I think I will meet up with a few people who have said have ideas for some projects. I do have a few ideas in my mind but feasibility is a major issue there. So I think I will see a few projects/ideas before deciding anything. Thanks a lot again! -- Regards, Sanket Medhi.
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Amol Hatwar -
Faraz Shahbazker -
Nagarjuna G. -
Sanket Medhi