Academic Research and Free Software
A match made in heaven, but they didn't meet at BYUThe UUG meeting this Thursday will be all about the fruitful relationship between Academia and the UNIX and Free Software worlds. We will discuss the phenomenal contributions by various universities in the past and the present. (Think BSD, Audacity, Pine and Pico, Mosaic, etc.) Then we will do a little healthy introspection and speculate as to why BYU is absent from that list, and then discuss how we as students can make a contributing citizen out of our alma mater. BYU has a wonderful emphasis on undergraduate research; wheras at other universities you have to twist a professor's arm to get involved in undergraduate research, at BYU it is a non-issue (especially if you're willing to do research without pay). Why then do we not contribute more to the world in the form of Free software? Come learn how to make a difference, and make your resume look great in the process! (Participation in research is a sure way to make yourself more attractive to graduate programs everywhere, too.) The meeting will be a sort of open forum discussing these things. I and possibly some other panelists will do preliminary research but I expect the synergy of the group to come up with some real whamo ideas on how we can make a difference! -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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