gordon dunlop wrote: > I received a forwarded email today via a member of my LUG from M.J. Ray > asking about information on UK University FOSS research groups. I realized > that he is also a member of this list so I am posting this reply on FOSS in > Scottish Universities here as I think the other members might find the > information interesting.
Thanks for that. However, it sounds like the question may have been unclear, or mangled during forwarding. The original is at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5879 I was looking for UK research groups *studying* FOSS rather than using or developing it, like the maybe-vanished osrg.hud.ac.uk. Is there a maintained listing of UK University FOSS research groups? Are there any? I've had a direct reply suggesting asking oss-watch (the FOSS advisory service in the same space), but I guess people from there watch this list too (*waves*) so need I still do that? ;-) Interesting details on the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow & Aberdeen nonetheless. I share some of the stated views about the weakness of new graduates in working with FOSS and would go so far as to say that academic qualifications don't help us to evaluate developers as much as any experience they might have gained outside their course. Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) LMS developer and webmaster at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
