Hi Richard, Richard Stallman wrote: > This is very timely. I've been asked to head up a pilot project here at > the University of Toronto with a goal of engaging students in open > source development. > > If you launch a project of "open source development", you can teach > students how to participate in useful projects of collaborative > development. That is a useful thing to do, in a practical sense. > > I agree 100%. This is something I've wanted to do since 2001 but the right grant hasn't come my way yet. I think practical experience in open source development/collaboration is of huge value to students. Dave Humphrey does this quite successfully with Mozilla projects at Seneca College.
> If you call the same project "free/libre software development", you > can teach students how to participate in collaborative development > projects, and at the same time teach them to value and defend freedom > for software users. That would serve a practical purpose and at the > same time strengthen our community's civil virtues. So how about it? > > I think about this issue pretty much every time I write "open source" -- and it is your fault :) My preference is to go with the free/libre semantics and goals. The project was officially launched months ago and I'm coming in late but I'll see what I can do... I've been told I can make a lot of changes. cheers, David _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
