Hi, Here at Gallaudet University, due to the English literacy barriers faced by many deaf individuals, our students tend to skew a bit older than average, since so many resources depend on written language. The database class, plus guests, just had a presentation by Oracle about their ThinkQuest competition, and after getting excited, about half of the audience learned that they were over the age limit for the competition.
The prof's got them thinking about Microsoft Imagine Cup now. (Haven't checked the age limits there.) Ewww! I, naturally want to push something that's at least sorta friendly to FOSS. I mentioned GSoC and the OLPC Contributors program but I think the professor's looking for a "competition" rather than a "project". Personally, I also think our students would do better with "collaboration" rather than "competition" since (a) you don't "lose" and (b) it's open-ended: Students who participate in such efforts go on to become professionals who participate in such efforts and end up mentoring the current crop of students who go on to become professionals... Ain't recursion grand? ;-) Thoughts? Opportunities? -- Kevin Cole | Key ID: 0xE6F332C7 (GPG/PGP) Gallaudet University | WWW: http://research.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/ Dawes House 305 | V/TTY: (202) 651-5135 Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746 Linux: The flagship of Free, Open Source Software (FOSS)
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