Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le lundi 20 août 2007, à 13:33 -0400, David Bolter a écrit :
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le lundi 13 août 2007, à 05:55 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit :
> >   
> >> Remember this thread? Anybody kept working on a GNOME group focused on
> >> universities?
> >> What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of
> >> creating a formal committe?
> >>     
> >
> > Fernando and I had a discussion about this at GUADEC. I'm also in
> > contact with two or three other people who are interested in this.
> >
> > I think we'd need to create a mailing list and start organizing the work
> > there, especially what will be the next actions. There are already a few
> > ideas about how to make more use of GNOME for teaching. Of course, more
> > focus on the research side would be great too!
> >
> > Fernando, do you want to take care of the mailing list creation? :-)
> >
> >   
> 
> This is very timely. I've been asked to head up a pilot project here at 
> the University of Toronto with a goal of engaging students in open 
> source development. Please let me know if I can be of help (committee or 
> otherwise). Do we have someone to lead this effort?

Oh, interesting! I'd love to hear more about this project! And if we can
help in any way with this, tell us!

We didn't find a "leader" yet, but there's a small group of interested
people, so it seems we're more geared towards a committee thing. So
you're really welcome to join us to share your ideas (and do more if you
want). I think Fernando will ask for the mailing list today, so we'll
hopefully have it soon.

Vincent

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