On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Maddog wrote:
First off this weeks Thinktech hawaii Radio show will be featuring Dr.
Gordon Jones, Dean of the College of Professional Studies. We will be
discussing what HPU is doing to help form a legitimate Tech Industry
here in
Hawaii. Included in the discussion is a piece on the new Freer Center.
Secondly, after our interview I asked Dr. Jones about Open Source and
how
big of a part is it playing in their techings. He lit up like a light
bulb.
He wrote a whitepaper about 10 years ago on the coming power of Open
Source.
They actually have incorporated it into the teachings their. I went a
little
further and asked him about putting together non-credit courses and he
was
very interested.
One of the CS Professors at HPU, Dr, Samson, took the time to listen to
our Open Source presentation at the Tech Solutions Today conference.
She has even been brave enough to invite me to speak to her class about
how OSS is used at a company like Pricebusters. Impressive and
inspiring that they are including this in the course.
He wants to discuss with the group here how we can work together to
make
this happen for the Spring Semester.
This would be good. But if they offer it, will they enroll
................?
--scott
