Sometimes I feel sad when I realize the likes of Smoot, and other topnotch scientists of our time are lecturers. Same applies for other fields too. Once can only envy their students. 

Anyway, I have a problem with this list. Very good ideas are fronted, we discuss, +1, like, and then nothing happens. The science TV show idea seems to have died. 

Can we have a formal physical meetup where we discuss this and other ideas and identify teams to bring the ideas to fruition? 




On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> @Joseph, by the time a student is ready for internship or good enough to
> contribute to a software project online, they are already good enough.
>
> But there is that stage from the moment a programmer is born (figuratively
> speaking), to the moment they are good enough to get an internship or
> contribute to an open source project. It is at this stage where, I theorize,
> that programmer mortality rate is at its highest.
>
> And it is at this stage that mentorship would have the most efficacy.
>

I get you. But I think it will be a bit harder to motivate outside
mentors (who are not the teachers) to do it at this level. But all the
best if you manage to do it.
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