Hi Jay,
An OpenBSD course: funny you should mention it. I was just thinking
about that. Last week I finished taking MIT's first serious on line
course and it was a very thrilling experience:
http://6002x.mitx.mit.edu
However, I realize that it takes a tremendous effort on the part of the
designers of the course to do that. I am sure they spent the best part of
$1 million in staff salaries and infrastructure to offer it to 156,000
students. ( About 5000 or so passed the final exam ). It was absolutely
free this time. On the other hand if students were to contribute even
just $10 each, then they could have easily covered their expenses.
BTW, the idea of having a "server" and a "desktop" version of the
OpenBSD install is probably not one that is interesting to the type of
people who are top developers of OpenBSD. Remember that OpenBSD is mainly
just the spin off of what the volunteer developers find interesting to
develop, rather than something that is driven by a commerical incentive.
Of course, commercial interests are welcome to contribute as well, but
they rarely do.
We collect from the trail of treasures that volunteer developers leave
behind as they explore the frontiers of computing. Theo provides a tight
discipline and framework to keep code clean.
However, there is nothing to stop you and whatever others you can find
to work with you, to do what you propose. There is lots of room for
symbiotic efforts.
Regards,
Austin
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Jay Patel wrote:
Hi all,
--OpenBSD can have education courses like RHEL ,etc etc. for
development , administration. And it can be taught online. It will be
good idea.
--Also we can have options like "server " and "Desktop" like
http://www.linuxcdmall.com/redhat-screenshots-3.html which can
attract more users.
its just my opinion. also BSDcert is doing great for BSD as a whole.
Thanks,
Jay
