Remember this thread? Anybody kept working on a GNOME group focused on universities? What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of creating a formal committe?
On 5/7/07, Carlos Garcia Campos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El mié, 25-04-2007 a las 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz escribió: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > As you probably know, there have been some research done in the acadamic > > world related to GNOME in the past. However, from the GNOME point of > > view, this is not something we've been good at, or at least, we could do > > better. Like, keeping track of what has been done, pushing to get more > > research related to GNOME done, getting useful contributions out of the > > research projects used in GNOME, etc. We could even imagine the GNOME > > Foundation being a partner in research projects in the future (we're not > > ready for that now, of course). > > > > Some people within our community are active in the academic world, and > > know quite well how these things work. We'd love those people to > > participate in an effort to make the GNOME community more open to the > > academic research. The goal is to create links with labs and research > > teams, and hopefully be able to help define projects which will be > > useful to GNOME. > > I work for GSyC/LibreSoft [1], a research group at Universidad Rey Juan > Carlos in Spain mainly focused on libre software engineering. GNOME, > both as a project and as a community, is present in a lot of our > studies, mainly because in the group there are people already involved > in the GNOME community like Alvaro del Castillo[2] and me[3]. > > So, we are very interested in participating here, since we are already a > link between GNOME and research world. > > > So, how do we make this happen? A few key people will be needed to lead > > this effort. We'll create a mailing list, which will be used to discuss > > how we can improve such collaborations, but which will also serve as an > > entry point for researchers who want to work with GNOME. We'll need to > > be open about proposals coming from researchers and as helpful as > > possible. One of the first steps will also be to find people in > > universities and labs who could be interested in collaborating with us. > > We are interested in collaborating. > > > GNOME resources are of course available to make all this happen: svn, > > wiki, mailing lists, website, and many other things. > > > > Feedback is welcome, and volunteers will be cheered :-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Vincent > > [1] http://libresoft.urjc.es > [2] http://libresoft.urjc.es/People/show?id=6 > [3] http://libresoft.urjc.es/People/show?id=10 > > -- > Carlos Garcia Campos > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://carlosgc.linups.org > PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462 > -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list