2011/12/15 Bonnie MacKellar <[email protected]> > Hi,**** > > ** ** > > We have Learning Community events several times a semester for our > computer science students. We usually get people from the IT industry to > come in to give an overview of some area such as security or healthcare > informatics. Since we have been doing some open source projects now, and > will continue to do them (my software engineering course will be working on > a project with our local Ronald McDonald House), I thought it might be > useful to bring in a speaker who could give an overview of the wonderful > world of open source. I may have one prospect, but am interested in any > recommendations from this list. We need to find local people since we have > no travel budget! Local for us is NYC metro area. Are there any people you > would recommend, or do any of you do talks like this?**** > > ** >
Dr. Robert Dewar of AdaCore and professor emeritus from NYU would be a good candidate. He is brilliant and incredibly entertaining. His experiences with GNU Ada and supporting projects in critical domains like avionics would make for an interesting talk. I know he has written columns on this topic. I am sure he has talks ready to go. And even if he doesn't, I watched him use markers to draw foils about 15 minutes before a presentation at a conference. It was the best presentation I saw at that conference. You can pass along my name and say I gave a glowing review. :) --joel sherrill RTEMS > ** > > Thanks,**** > > Bonnie MacKellar**** > > St Joh’s University**** > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > >
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