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.
If you launch a project of "open source development", you can teach students how to participate in useful projects of collaborative development. That is a useful thing to do, in a practical sense. If you call the same project "free/libre software development", you can teach students how to participate in collaborative development projects, and at the same time teach them to value and defend freedom for software users. That would serve a practical purpose and at the same time strengthen our community's civil virtues. So how about it? See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list