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

2007-08-21 Thread Richard Stallman
I think about this issue pretty much every time I write "open source" -- and it is your fault :) Good ;-). I've been working hard at this for 9 years, and it is nice to know I have had influence on some people's thoughts. If I can also influence your actions so that you too will spread

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

2007-08-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Described roughly. the 2.5 pilot project with Bell is to produce > personalized location aware information to students with mobile devices on > a university campus. *sound of needle slipping off the record* > I've been meaning to find out more about the online desktop effort to see > if that

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

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
Hi Richard, Richard Stallman wrote: > 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

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

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
Vincent Untz wrote: > 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? W

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

2007-08-21 Thread Richard Stallman
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 collabo