This is not generally true of faculty in the US, as far as I know - at least I've never heard of it. :) There are various rules in place to keep me from selling credits without my university's cut, but I can consult on whatever I want up to some limit of # of hours consonant with my day job.
best, --titus On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:32:00PM +0100, Olav Vahtras wrote: > Just adding that solutions that have been suggested here, to just connect > interested instructors with companies and to let them negotiate, are out of > bounds for me. As a university employee I am not allowed to teach elsewhere > for personal gain, while participating at workshops as an invited > instructor hosted by other universities can be considered part of my job > description. My guess is that most instructors here are in the academia and > have similar rules. > > /Olav > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > - I favour the "for-profits pay/not-for-profits don't pay", single-price > > camp. > > > > The "not-for-profits don't pay" can be dangerous to our sustainability > > outside US. Here in Brazil almost 100% of the universities that can be > > interested in our workshops are 100% public funding and with > > not-for-profit status. > > Going with "not-for-profits don't pay" will mean that we will need to find > > another way to pay administration hours for workshops in Brazil. > > For the Brazilian case, we could try get national support for > > administration > > cost of all workshops in Brazil in the same way that Brazilian Federal > > Government has a national subscription to many non-open access journals. > > > > Raniere > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
