On 2008-11-24, at 17:16 , Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 17:10 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: >> Josh, >> Let's work together on this, as I've also been working in this space >> and so have others, including Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation. We >> can discuss this offlist, and on the Google Group I set up a while >> ago, though it is more focused on universities than general >> education, >> and I tend to think now the scope must be broadened. >> >> See: http://groups.google.ca/group/foss-universities >> >> It used to have an embarrassing amount of spam. I spent some quality >> time deleting it. > > My focus right now is Higher Ed, so Universities and Community > Colleges. > The reason is, they are the kids that will be affected the quickest > and > have the most opportunity to influence decisions in the next 5 years.
Then join the group and post queries. I'm also working with Seneca College, in Toronto. It's had success with Mozilla Firefox and other projects/apps. > > > Joshua D. Drake -louis > > >> Louis >> >> On 2008-11-24, at 16:10 , Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> As part of my current FOSS mission, I am reaching out to United >>> States >>> based educational instituions and offering to talk to ACM, CS, IEEE >>> students. What I have found however, is that a lot of these folks >>> are >>> either very busy or contact web pages are out of sync with reality. >>> So I >>> thought I would appeal to peeps on this list. >>> >>> If you have a contact at a University, I would appreciate an >>> introduction. If you would like to see some of the talks I have done >>> you >>> can view them here: >>> >>> http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2008/11/you_are_not_good_enough_for_open_source/ >>> http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2008/11/the_open_source_job_market/ >>> http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2008/10/on_the_morning_of_west_east_08_appears/ >>> >>> And any of you who have attended PgConference: West/East have seen >>> me >>> speak. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Joshua D. Drake >>> >>> -- >>> PostgreSQL >>> Consulting, Development, Support, Training >>> 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ >>> The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Spi-general mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general >> >> >> >> -- >> Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD >> Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. >> OpenOffice.org >> > -- > PostgreSQL > Consulting, Development, Support, Training > 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ > The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 > _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
