Hi Jennifer, I'm responding to this with a CC to the Teaching Open Source mailing list (see teachingopensource.org), which includes professors and open source people from across Canada and around the world that are interested and involved in the teaching of open source. Some of them are keenly interested in open source as humanitarian or social tool, and might have good ideas, or want to hear more about your work. I'd encourage you to share some more of your thinking with this list.
I know for me personally, I'd be interested in understanding more about what an "open government" project looks like. Dave -------- Original Message -------- Subject: encouraging software profs to assign open government projects Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:33:24 -0400 From: Jennifer Bell <[email protected]> To: David Humphrey <[email protected]> Hi David, We met at FSOSS last year. Given your expertise, I wanted to get your opinion on something: We have some money put aside we'd like to use for a scholarship competition that will award money to students that create open source projects that help citizens access, share, and visualize, and civic information. Our idea is to encourage computer science and software engineering professors to assign such projects as part of classroom assignments. What sort of infrastructure should be in place to support and assist professors in assigning open government projects? Can you point to any similar programs you thought worked well? Any advice would be appreciated, Jennifer Bell -- http://visiblegovernment.ca RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VisiblegovernmentcaBlog _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
