Hi Bharat, This is my fault. If you are not subscribed to the edu-discuss list, I am supposed to moderate your posts. And I forgot my moderator password! I am working on tracking it down, so don't be surprised if you see your post come through soon...
T Bharath Ravi Kumar wrote On 09/20/05 04:32,: > Hi Patrick, > As i mentioned in my previoius replay (which is yet to appear > on the OS mailing list since I don't have all the required mailing-list > permissions), I too agree that the community should be the one to > support OS. I'd be glad if we're indeed thinking on those lines > already. I'd again like to draw attention to regions where a high volume > of students graduate in Computer Science every year. It is very likely > that the market/economy in these regions is only just maturing to be > able to spend on IT infrastructure (and bandwidth is also an issue in > such countried). Put these factors together and you'll see why all these > people should come out of college armed with knowledge in OS (which, > hopefully, will have enough penetration soon in these regions). The 2 > factors - market demand & knowledge - obviously have a cyclic dependency > on each other. So, fuelling one factor might provide an im petus to the > other. Which is why one cannot over emphasize the importance of > introducing OS in educational circles in these regions. I hope we're > already doing something about it. > > Thanks & Regards, > Bharath > > */Patrick Finch <Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM>/* wrote: > > Tim, Bharath, > > I think and hope that we're actually already thinking along those > lines: > I won't go into all the details of the education engagement plan, but > getting OpenSolaris media widely available, with some training > materials, is top priority. Even though the source can be downloaded > for free, network bandwidth isn't the same all around the world, so we > felt that this will be quite an enabler. > > Tim's point on support is a good one too: OpenSolaris is supported by > the community. There are a number of academic programmes which sees Sun > donating equipment to institutions, but donating support contracts > (beyond warranty) is virgin territory as far as I'm aware. > > This is all great food for thought -thanks- and if you would like to > discuss the details of our planning, please let me know. > > regards > > Patrick > > > > Tim Foster wrote: > > >Hey Bharath > > > >On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:21, Bharath Ravi Kumar wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> I just wanted to mention a new phenomenon in tech marketing that > >>i came across in India: A number of companies have resorted to giving > >>away software (with support) to premier institutions in the country > >>absolutely free. > >> > >> > > > >Yep, that makes perfect sense : of course, OpenSolaris is already > >absolutely free - but yes, there should be some contact between the > >OpenSolaris community and universities everywhere. Thankfully, there > >already is ! > > > >There are guys who I believe are looking at this stuff at > >http://opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/ > >I've Cc:d that list on this email (sorry for the cross-post) > > > >I'd have loved it if my university had OpenSolari s instead of Linux on > >the curriculum for a whole load of reasons, but I don't want to risk a > >flamewar, so I'll stop there! > > > >Perhaps the -edu folks have ideas that can help implement your > excellent > >suggestion ? > > > >The question of support is one I don't know how to answer (I'm kinda > >busy as is, and probably couldn't cope with taking it on myself ;-) At > >the very least though, getting OpenSolaris into university curriculums > >can be done *now* and perhaps support could be provided through general > >interaction with the community ? Not everything has to be donated > from a > >corporate entity... > > > >Thanks for the suggestion though - I think it's a good one. > > > > cheers, > > tim > > > > > > > >> In addition, they also take time to impart training (through > >>developers located in the vicinity of the institutions) in the > >>relevant concepts involved . For instance, a University that governs > >>colleges around Bangalore mandates that the Linux environment be used > >>to carry out minor projects in related to Operating Systems in general > >>& Unix in particular. Linux is advocated primarily because it's free. > >>Would it not be a good idea to publicize OS and impress upon the Univs > >>the importance of OS to the area of Operating Systems? So, Operating > >>Systems courses could involve Solaris as a case study & use OS (which > >>is free) in their projects. That'd help get word around even better, i > >>thought (and you have students with the knowledge of Solaris > >>graduating out). Like I mentioned earlier, this is just an observation > >>I made. Comments welcome. > >>Regards, > >>Bharath > >>This message posted from opensolaris.org > >>_______________________________________________ > >>opensolaris-mktg mailing list > >> > >> > >opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-mktg mailing list > opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
