Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects

Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by em-bee on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:19AM (#27659278)

france has a lot of engineering schools, which are not universities. autoconf is one famous project from a french engineering school.

likewise germany has the fachhochschule, which is also expressly for vocational education at university level.

i would not call those equivalents to lamda school, mostly because lambda school is private profit oriented startup, whereas french and german engineering schools are established government funded public schools with a history of more than 50 years.

one could argue that maybe US community colleges should be the US equivalent of those schools with a focus on vocational education.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by jcelerier on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:39AM (#27659731)

VLC is another such project coming from a french engineering school AFAIK.

I do some TA in such schools (ENSEIRB) and every year I make students contribute to OSS, generally by writing small plug-ins to an existing software, it always works fine. Not a lot of them keep going afterwards though.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by pjmlp on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:44AM (#27659760)

Same applies in Portugal and Spain, actually I think most European countries follow similar models.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by albuquerque on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:24AM (#27661633)

In Portugal ?

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by pjmlp on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:16AM (#27662278)

Yep, unless politécnicos and universidades now have turned into the same thing after Bologna.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by undfg on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:41AM (#27660552)

Not in Spain.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by pjmlp on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:49AM (#27660625)

I people that took their degrees at universidades and politecnicas.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by undfg on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:44AM (#27661167)

Politécnicas are regular universities with a different name.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by pjmlp on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:15AM (#27662257)

Quoting https://es.sawakinome.com/articles/university-education/diff... as I cannot be bothered to search it more than a few seconds.

" En breve:

Diferencia entre politécnico y universidad.

• Las universidades tienen un enfoque más amplio y enseñan materias con énfasis en impartir conocimientos básicos con muchos aspectos teóricos con un poco de trabajo de proyectos y tareas de laboratorio..

• Por otro lado, los politécnicos son más prácticos en su enfoque y toman cursos más pequeños que son específicos de la industria y no se enseñan en las universidades..

• Así que además de los títulos de ingeniería, hay una gran cantidad de otros cursos, diplomas y certificados que se ofrecen en estos politécnicos que son de menor duración y ayudan a los estudiantes a obtener empleos en industrias. "

For the english speaking crowd, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https:/...

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by undfg on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:42AM (#27663351)

That's SEO spam and doesn't necessarily refer to Spain. From the way it's written it looks like it was written by a South American.

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Re:Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source S... by 7steps2much on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:53AM (#27660672)

Austria has the Fachhochschule as well! Same thing as in Germany pretty much.

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