Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to have a few volunteers for our student outreach program. > If you know a likely candidate or have the time to do a campus visit, > please step forward. Let's help make this happen: > http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/01/perl-monger-parallelism.html
I'm happy to do a campus visit, but my only contacts are at Bridgwater College - I'll ask them if they have any Perlers. Also, what are the projects we're suggesting to them? I may be a bit off-message for you, though. I think Google spins like crazy to deflect criticism of its business methods. It formed the Google Foundation http://www.google.org/ putting it in illustrious company with Nestle, Shell, the Gateses and a long list of others using soaring profits [BBC] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6319031.stm to buy goodwill from non-profits. To win over sceptical hackers, it has released some of its less profitable software as free software on Google Code. And the "Summer of Code" scheme which buys some projects a student worker for the summer is part of this landscape, although it also means Google gets new data about lots of students and mentors. My view is that we should note they "aren't a particularly good example, but if you can get money out of them to improve the project and the web search tools it contains, good luck!" (from a debian-project email http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/04/msg00291.html ). Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
