Thank you all for your attention, In answer to Anita, in a way my goal is to get a good mark as I have been getting good marks so far. I had a project proposal of my own, a web app for a friend of mine but my supervisor didn't think it good enough to get me a good mark and she suggested I approach you. Final year projects don't seem to be about showing off what we have learned over the last 3/4 years rather to show off what we haven't learned at college. I started off my degree from a very low foundation of knowledge about programming and found I really liked the coding side of things so I switched to a software development degree in second year. It is very difficult to get the balance right when you realize how little you know about the subject, the more I learn the bigger the field seems to be getting. I will spend some time investigating the links you sent me.
On 7 October 2014 19:41, Adam Lawson <alaw...@aqorn.com> wrote: > Is the OP looking to help patch bugs with an individual program or to use > Openstack to deploy an interesting use case? The latter is how I > interpreted the question. > > > *Adam Lawson* > > AQORN, Inc. > 427 North Tatnall Street > Ste. 58461 > Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 > Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 > International: +1 302-387-4660 > Direct: +1 916-246-2072 > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Duncan Thomas <duncan.tho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 7 October 2014 19:01, Anita Kuno <ante...@anteaya.info> wrote: >> > On 10/07/2014 01:38 PM, Adam Young wrote: >> >> On 10/06/2014 05:28 PM, Anita Kuno wrote: >> >>> On 10/06/2014 04:11 PM, Adam Young wrote: >> >>>> I am looking to get someone to work on a Javascript based web client >> to >> >>>> replace Horizon. >> >> >>> Can I just say that I think using new people looking to have work >> >>> experience with OpenStack to further pet projects, without telling >> them >> >>> it is a pet project and not considered a project which others may >> >>> consider OpenStack to be not the best approach for encouraging new >> >>> people. >> >> I think writing a client / gui for openstack is one of the best single >> projects you can do to get a good overview of the whole stack. >> >> >>> Not knocking your project, Adam, since I know nothing about it, and >> this >> >>> isn't the first time I have seen this happen. But I do believe that >> >>> folks asking to help out with something are looking to gain >> transferable >> >>> skills so that they have something to offer a potential employeer who >> is >> >>> looking for work experience with OpenStack. That would be what I would >> >>> be looking for anyway. >> >> >> No offense taken. I think you are looking out for the interest of the >> >> poster and people wityh similar interests. >> >> <snip> >> >> >> It would not be appropriate for >> >> someone in Patricia's position to try and come in and get a bug fix >> >> through. >> >> > Now on this point, I'm going to disagree, simply because I don't have >> > enough information on what Patricia's position actually is. I can guess >> > but until I hear from Patricia herself, I'm just guessing and I would >> > much rather know. It was my desire to know more about Patricia's >> > position that motivated my suggestion she join irc and perhaps ask a few >> > questions, allowing others to ask questions of her. >> > >> > When interacting with other folks who enter under similar circumstances, >> > my first question invariably is "What is your goal?". I truly hope >> > Patricia has something better than "to get a good mark" because folks >> > with that goal rarely interest me, but who knows. I haven't had the >> > chance to ask. >> >> If you're doing a final year project and your highest goal isn't 'to >> get a good mark', then you're doing yourself a serious disservice. You >> can have all sorts of secondary goals, but by the point in your >> academic career where you're doing your final year project, your main >> goal is to prove you're learnt and can apply all of the skills that >> your course has covered. This actually involves a very different >> process to getting something done in the 'real world'. >> >> >> That limits the number of projects available. >> > Now here is where I would like to interact with program administrators >> > at institutions such as Patricia's to ask them why a project? We have >> > over 300 including stackforge, why task a student with starting their >> > own, why not encourage them to learn our development process which then >> > can enable them to work on any of the 300 in various stages of >> development. >> >> Extremely difficult to get a decent academic project and therefore a >> good mark out of an existing project that has had any substantial >> amount of work done on it. Not impossible, but flicking through a pile >> of old final year projects that got good marks shows that stand-alone >> start-to-finish projects tend to get better marks. (I've looked into >> this quite a bit) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Duncan Thomas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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