Hi Alejandro & the rest of the team. I'm Diego Turcios. I have been working with Ubuntu since 2008. I'm not actually a scientist, but a computer science engineer.
I like the idea of a blog or web magazine. Count with me if the team need help in this. Regards Diego 2014-04-11 7:01 GMT-06:00 Juan Alejandro Oliva <[email protected]>: > Hello Ubuntu-scientists group members > > I hope everything is going well. > > I was happy to see 17 members in the group. I would like to hear everyone's > story, so whenever you have time please introduce yourselves. > > > About the Whiteboard items: > > > Whiteboard set to: > 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 > > I think that all four items are great ideas but I think "scientists" is a > very broad term and therefore would become an endless endeavour. > > I also think that we can accomplish a great deal by using the fourth comment > (highlighting success stories). > > So I had an idea about doing a blog, webmagazine or other, with science > success stories using Ubuntu. Actually thinking like scientist, fail stories > would also help others greatly. > > > Since we are a very small group we should concentrate our efforts and not try > to do too much at first. > > Any comments to my ideas are welcome. > > Take care. > > > Best regards. > > J. Alejandro Oliva T. > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-scientists > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-scientists > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Diego Turcios DiegoTc Ubuntu User # 27518 ----------------------------------------------- Mis Blogs http://blog.diegoturcios.net16.net/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiegoTurcios ---------------------------------------------------------- Recuerden Dios siempre esta presente: http://sagradocorazondejesus-diegotc.blogspot.com/
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