Bharath, Yes, we have definitely taken this into account in our priorities - and you will see more activities from us in this area. thanks,
Patrick Bharath Ravi Kumar wrote: > 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 > >
