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

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

2007-08-20 Thread Vincent Untz
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 to ie marketing list with the objective of creating a formal committe? Fernando and I had a discussion about this at

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

2007-08-20 Thread David Bolter
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 to ie marketing list with the objective of creating a formal committe? Fernando and I had a

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

2007-08-20 Thread Vincent Untz
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 to ie marketing list with the

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

2007-08-20 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
El lun, 20-08-2007 a las 18:23 +0200, Vincent Untz escribió: 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 to ie marketing list with the objective of creating a

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

2007-08-20 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
El lun, 20-08-2007 a las 15:54 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod escribió: On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:41 -0400, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: http://live.gnome.org/Academic The page says There is a mailing list to discuss this topic within the community. Links please? :-), the list was

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

2007-05-07 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
El mié, 25-04-2007 a las 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz escribió: Hi, Hi, As you probably know, there have been some research done in the acadamic world related to GNOME in the past. However, from the GNOME point of view, this is not something we've been good at, or at least, we could do

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

2007-04-29 Thread Carlos Fenollosa
First of all I'm going to introduce myself, because I've been on the list for some time but I haven't posted anything until now. I'm Carlos and know some of you from the latest Guadec, but I've been using Gnome for five years and marketing free software amongst local friends and the University.

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

2007-04-28 Thread Quim Gil
On 4/25/07, Ted Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They'd prefer to say that they have a project from Novell/Redhat/Intel/etc. This shouldn't be a problem for GNOME. Sounds like there is an opportunity for collaboration with the companies in the advisory board at the GNOME Foundation. The big ones

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

2007-04-25 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:12 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Some years back, we had somebody work on our documentation to fulfill the internship requirement for her communications degree. There were some bumps, but on the whole I think it was a good experience for both her and us. Cool. I

Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-04-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, As you probably know, there have been some research done in the acadamic world related to GNOME in the past. However, from the GNOME point of view, this is not something we've been good at, or at least, we could do better. Like, keeping track of what has been done, pushing to get more

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

2007-04-24 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: So, how do we make this happen? A few key people will be needed to lead this effort. We'll create a mailing list, which will be used to discuss how we can improve such collaborations, but which will also serve as an entry point for

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

2007-04-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 01:05 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: [...] Feedback is welcome, and volunteers will be cheered :-) I don't think I have enough time to earn a cheer, I've already used up all the time I save through not putting on shoes :-) You could consider a peer-reviewed track at guadec.