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

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

2007-08-20 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
El lun, 20-08-2007 a las 15:54 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod escribió: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:41 -0400, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: > > > > http://live.gnome.org/Academic > > The page says "There is a mailing list to discuss this topic within the > community". Links please? :-), the list w

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

2007-08-20 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:41 -0400, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: > > http://live.gnome.org/Academic The page says "There is a mailing list to discuss this topic within the community". Links please? -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a lit

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

2007-08-20 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
El lun, 20-08-2007 a las 18:23 +0200, Vincent Untz escribió: > 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? > > What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of > > creatin

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

2007-08-20 Thread Vincent Untz
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? > >> What about moving the topic to ie marketing list

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

2007-08-20 Thread David Bolter
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? >> What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of >> creating a formal committe? >> > > Fernand

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

2007-08-20 Thread Vincent Untz
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? > What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of > creating a formal committe? Fernando and I had a discussion about this at GUA

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

2007-08-12 Thread Quim Gil
Remember this thread? Anybody kept working on a GNOME group focused on universities? What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of creating a formal committe? On 5/7/07, Carlos Garcia Campos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El mié, 25-04-2007 a las 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz es

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

2007-05-07 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
El mié, 25-04-2007 a las 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz escribió: > Hi, Hi, > As you probably know, there have been some research done in the acadamic > world related to GNOME in the past. However, from the GNOME point of > view, this is not something we've been good at, or at least, we could do > be

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

2007-04-29 Thread Carlos Fenollosa
First of all I'm going to introduce myself, because I've been on the list for some time but I haven't posted anything until now. I'm Carlos and know some of you from the latest Guadec, but I've been using Gnome for five years and marketing free software amongst local friends and the University. I'

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

2007-04-28 Thread Quim Gil
On 4/25/07, Ted Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They'd prefer to say > that they have a project from Novell/Redhat/Intel/etc. This shouldn't be a problem for GNOME. Sounds like there is an opportunity for collaboration with the companies in the advisory board at the GNOME Foundation. The big o

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

2007-04-25 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:12 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > Some years back, we had somebody work on our documentation > to fulfill the internship requirement for her communications > degree. There were some bumps, but on the whole I think it > was a good experience for both her and us. Cool. > I

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

2007-04-25 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 17:51 -0700, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > So, how do we make this happen? A few key people will be needed to lead > > this effort. We'll create a mailing list, which will be used to discuss > > how we can improve such collaborat

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

2007-04-25 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Vincent Untz wrote: > GNOME resources are of course available to make all this happen: svn, > wiki, mailing lists, website, and many other things. > > Feedback is welcome, and volunteers will be cheered :-) A wiki page with "Ideas for Students" would be great! Perhaps it could list ideas for PhD

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

2007-04-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: [...] > Feedback is welcome, and volunteers will be cheered :-) I don't think I have enough time to earn a cheer, I've already used up all the time I save through not putting on shoes :-) You could consider a peer-reviewed track at guadec. A

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

2007-04-24 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > So, how do we make this happen? A few key people will be needed to lead > this effort. We'll create a mailing list, which will be used to discuss > how we can improve such collaborations, but which will also serve as an > entry point for rese

Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-04-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, As you probably know, there have been some research done in the acadamic world related to GNOME in the past. However, from the GNOME point of view, this is not something we've been good at, or at least, we could do better. Like, keeping track of what has been done, pushing to get more research