Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-21 Thread Richard Stallman
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

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 20 août 2007, à 13:33 -0400, David Bolter a écrit : Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 13 août 2007, à 05:55 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : Remember this thread? Anybody kept working on a GNOME group focused on universities? What about moving the topic

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
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

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-21 Thread Richard Stallman
I think about this issue pretty much every time I write open source -- and it is your fault :) Good ;-). I've been working hard at this for 9 years, and it is nice to know I have had influence on some people's thoughts. If I can also influence your actions so that you too will spread