FOSSEE Fellowship 2019: Results of Crowdsourcing and Performance Based Selection

Students in 32,000 college departments were invited to participate in a project through a postal campaign, to be selected as FOSSEE Fellows. Out of the 500 students who completed this work, 90 were taken as FOSSEE Fellows for a duration of six weeks. When assigned to work on a related project, these Fellows produced good work, even though they were not top rankers in their colleges. Project based selection is better than examination based selection for short duration internships, as it produces a good combination of academic performance and motivation.