Hi all,
I'm a second year engineering student. As part of our curriculum at DA-IICT ( http://www.daiict.ac.in ) we are required to do a rural internship ( ie. work with an NGO and contribute to society in some way ). Now I really want to do this well, so I figured if I could find a place where I could work with technologies I'm passionate about, that would be the best. So I'm really hoping to find some organisation which uses FOSS extensively in its day to day activities and could use another hand. The details are:
Time frame: 2-3 weeks in December 2009 Place: willing to go almost anywhere, but I live in mumbai Areas I can work on: * Web development * Software development * Computer/Network setup * System administration * Teaching FOSS
My resume can be found at http://22bits.exofire.net/resume.html
PS. I would also appreciate pointers to organisations which could use any kind of IT help, not necessarily in FOSS.
Thanks a lot, Nikhil
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a second year engineering student. As part of our curriculum at DA-IICT ( http://www.daiict.ac.in ) we are required to do a rural internship ( ie. work with an NGO and contribute to society in some way ). Now I really want to do this well, so I figured if I could find a place where I could work with technologies I'm passionate about, that would be the best. So I'm really hoping to find some organisation which uses FOSS extensively in its day to day activities and could use another hand. The details are:
Maybe you could check with Comet Media - http://www.cometmedia.org/
On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 9:43:54 pm Nikhil Marathe wrote:
I'm a second year engineering student. As part of our curriculum at DA-IICT ( http://www.daiict.ac.in ) we are required to do a rural internship ( ie. work with an NGO and contribute to society in some way ).
try IT for change - it is bangalore based.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 9:43:54 pm Nikhil Marathe wrote:
I'm a second year engineering student. As part of our curriculum at DA-IICT ( http://www.daiict.ac.in ) we are required to do a rural internship ( ie. work with an NGO and contribute to society in some way ).
try IT for change - it is bangalore based.
regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
@Mehul and Varun Thanks for the link but the cometmedia site doesn't load... Is it an NGO btw or simply an organisation which helps other NGOs. Because if I go and sit in a normal office and work, that doesn't really count as an internship in this case. I have to be on site, eg. go and set up internet connectivity in a village or teach underprivileged students in school something.
@Kenneth I don't get it, "try IT for a change"?
Cheers, Nikhil
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
@Mehul and Varun Thanks for the link but the cometmedia site doesn't load... Is it an NGO btw or simply an organisation which helps other NGOs. Because if I go and sit in a normal office and work, that doesn't really count as an internship in this case. I have to be on site, eg. go and set up internet connectivity in a village or teach underprivileged students in school something.
Use google cache ;-) and then you can get in contact with them and find out if it meets your requirements.
@Kenneth I don't get it, "try IT for a change"?
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 20:33 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
@Mehul and Varun Thanks for the link but the cometmedia site doesn't load... Is it an NGO btw or simply an organisation which helps other NGOs. Because if I go and sit in a normal office and work, that doesn't really count as an internship in this case. I have to be on site, eg. go and set up internet connectivity in a village or teach underprivileged students in school something.
HI, I am Krishnakant Mane from Comet Media foundation. you can mail me off list for contact details. You are most welcome to work with us. If we can meet somewhere around this week, may be we will decide quickly about the kind of work you would like to do.
We do a lot of diverce work and while comet has many other things on their agenda, FOSS is my priority. We see FOSS as a very powerful medium for enabling the under privileged people and believe in inclusive policies.
Happy hacking./ Krishnakant.
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 8:27:11 pm Nikhil Marathe wrote:
@Kenneth I don't get it, "try IT for a change"?
ITforchange is an NGO - I do not have the address at hand, please google for it.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 8:27:11 pm Nikhil Marathe wrote:
@Kenneth I don't get it, "try IT for a change"?
ITforchange is an NGO - I do not have the address at hand, please google for it.
@Kenneth, thanks for the suggestion, but there work is more political and literary than coding, so I think I'll skip that.
On Thursday 22 Oct 2009 3:52:33 pm Nikhil Marathe wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org
wrote:
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 8:27:11 pm Nikhil Marathe wrote:
@Kenneth I don't get it, "try IT for a change"?
ITforchange is an NGO - I do not have the address at hand, please google for it.
@Kenneth, thanks for the suggestion, but there work is more political and literary than coding, so I think I'll skip that.
if you find an NGO whose work is not political and literary, please let me know ;-)
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