The GNU education team looked at software-carpentry.org and reported
important flaws. They use the Mac and Windows platforms, and they
include flash videos in their web pages. These work directly against
users' freedom.
At the philosophical level, they are in the open source camp. They
use the
I am no expert on education, but your GNOME Outreach Program for
Professors sounds like a good thing.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an
Hi Joanie,
On 05/25/2012 12:49 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
snip
Thoughts?
I love it, from beginning to end! A great idea and one where we will
have lots of help if we decided to open it up to other organisations too.
And I love the idea of turning the professors into mentors as well - get
I hope no one minds the new subject. But I started out innocently enough
answering Richard's question. But at the end had an essay plus a
proposal. I hate when I do that, but what's done is done, so I wanted to
separate it out from the Board Candidacy discussion.
On 05/22/2012 10:56 PM, Richard
On 05/24/2012 06:49 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
* They are not familiar with -- and thus not comfortable teaching --
all the tools we use.
* They want certainty in terms of assignments and projects.
* They want predictability with respect to a schedule.
* They want a curriculum they can
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
On 05/24/2012 06:49 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
* They are not familiar with -- and thus not comfortable teaching --
all the tools we use.
* They want certainty in terms of assignments and projects.
* They want
On 05/24/2012 06:59 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
FWIW, Software Carpentry is one of the more successful experiment I've seen
in
the Free Software meets Academic Courses experiments. Thought I share the
link:
http://software-carpentry.org/
Seneca College's collaboration with Mozilla has
