To deal with some of the queries about our projects. Formally students are the owners of the work they submit for assessment, not the University. That said our School is a keen supporter of Open source and we would encourage students to take on that view. We can make it a requirement for participation in a project that the deliverables be made opensource. Students who don't wish to be engaged in that condition have the option of doing a different project. There are different types of projects and we have to be careful to put an idea into the right pigeon hole. The types are 1. Information Sysyems project - 4-6 students doing a co-ordinated project that ideally has both technical and social requirements. e.g. developing a content management solution for a business (this is not the same as coding a content management system). Available 2nd semester only - but planning needs to start about now. 2. Software engineering project - 1-2 students doing a technical project in which most of the work is developing code. Available 1st and 2nd semester. Masters coursework students can also do this project. 3. Honours project - an honours student doing an investigative project for a year (50% project-50% course work). To get the best students you need to offer a scholarship of $6,500). 4. Summer scholarship - an advanced student, either 3rd or honours year working on a specific task that has some important discovery element to it. Needs to be funded at $5,0000. We offered 10 of these over this summer, most of which would have some relevance to General Practice. Tim Churches funded one to investigate extracting useful information from the text descriptions of Emergency Department reports.
My original offer was intended to cover Type 1 only , but I am happy to extend it to Type 2. Type 3 & 4 are intended for our institutional partners and have a more investigative role. Pls contact me offline if you have an interest in either of these. We have 5 of Type 3 already lined up for this year but we are happy to accept more. cheers jon patrick Quoting Richard Hosking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This would certainly be an opportunity. It would presumably need a > dedicated manager from our side. > It would have to be discrete enough to see tangible results in the > timeframe. > > What are the characteristics that the university would require from such > a project? > What would happen to the IP - would it reside with the university or be > available to the public domain? > Could we develop a larger project from several bits? > > Richard > > > Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > >On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>Michael Daly's request is an opportunity to put out an offer to use > our > >>students to assist in this type of work. Our third year students have > to > >>do a group project (4-6 students) on some information systems project. > The > >>project has to be a real life situation that solves a tangible > problem, > >>such as selecting, installing and commissioning a Content Management > >>System. If you have ideas for other system tasks let me know. The > teams > >>tend to split around different functions e.g. project manager, systems > >>analyst, designer, programmer, etc. and they are expected to put in > 120 > >>hours of work each. The projects run from August to October. The > students > >>compete for a $1000 awarded by Accenture and they are very competitive > and > >>the best produce very high class results of industrial standard. You > might > >>want to use them for your own enterprises or for a community group you > are > >>aassociated with. The offer is restricted to the Sydney environs, > although > >>last year one group travelled to Newcastle. Not all ideas are suitable > for > >>this type of project as they might be too small or too large. Write to > me > >>and I'm happy to help you develop something of the correct size. > >>cheers > >>jon > >> > >>-- > >>Jon Patrick > >>Chair of Language Technology > >>School of Information Technologies > >>University of Sydney > >>Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia > >> > >> > >> > > > >Just ask us, Jon, we can think of all sorts of projects. > >I have a son doing Computer Science at St Elsewhere's and I was already > >thinking up ways to get their groups involved in projects for "us" > (being GP > >type people) > >Liz > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > -- Jon Patrick Chair of Language Technology School of Information Technologies University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
