http://lwn.net/Articles/568202/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "A gathering of kernel developers". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/569122/rss 2013-10-02T09:58:24+00:00 glaesera <div class="FormattedComment"> Work in Kernel-Development is probably most interesting for people, because 80% of kernel-developers are actually paid for their work, while in other open-source areas the ratio might be 80% unpaid vs. 20% paid.<br> <p> </div> http://lwn.net/Articles/568997/rss 2013-10-01T15:18:58+00:00 njwhite <div class="FormattedComment"> In related efforts, Cory Doctorow some time ago mentioned assigning students to improve and expand a stub Wikipedia article about some subject they were studying (for something English-related IIRC), with assessment being done based on their contributions to the page. Always struck me as a great idea; it encourages researching further, thinking about the best ways to (re)organise descriptions of complex ideas, and the importance of good collaboration. Not to mention that I'm sure the Wikipedia article in question was much better once they were finished.<br> </div> http://lwn.net/Articles/568333/rss 2013-09-26T01:32:14+00:00 dashesy That "get a patch into the kernel" should be fun, I wish more professors were as enlightened. <br> There is value in many of those term projects if directed to the right direction, for example asking engineering students to write code in Python instead of MATLAB would have produced huge amount of valuable libraries, but instead MATLAB code is only good to pass the class and is otherwise useless. <br> Asking students to collaborate on a github project would also benefit them in filling out a valuable resume. I would rather look at commit logs rather than a 10 page resume and white boarding.