Sorry for the delay, this biology capstone is taking all of my time that I'm wake along with everything else school related. Reply is in-line as always...
On 03/26/2014 11:04 AM, Willem Ligtenberg wrote: > I am Willem Ligtenberg, I have a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering. And I > now work as a bioinformatician/biostatistician for a consultancy company > which really values Open Source. > We try release all software we write under an open source license if the > clients are willing. Hey there, I'm Svetlana Belkin, A.K.A belkinsa. I know that we have chatted in the IRC channel yesterday. I would like to thank you for this e-mail because it's a real introduction with feedback/comments for the team and that's what we need right now. W00t for where you work. > And we will show them the advantages of using (and creating) OSS. > > In my opinion we can at least have four goals: > 1) help scientists find FLOSS alternatives > 2) get universities to teach FLOSS instead of proprietary software. (or > at least mention/show it...) > 3) get scientists to be more involved in Ubuntu > 4) try to convince scientist to make a career in FLOSS development > > 1) is the easiest > 2) is very difficult, we will have to ensure there is teaching material > 3) I actually don't know what to do here specifically. > 4) I think we should highlight good success stories of people who > focussed on creating FLOSS in the academic/business world At this moment, I have no comments to add to what you have said but I will add this to the goals blueprint:https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-scientists/+spec/goals -- Svetlana Belkin A.K.A: belkinsa Member of: LoCo Contacts, Ubuntu Doc Team, Ubuntu Ohio, Ubuntu Women User Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/belkinsa -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-scientists Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-scientists More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
