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 researchers who want to work with GNOME. We'll need to > be open about proposals coming from researchers and as helpful as > possible. One of the first steps will also be to find people in > universities and labs who could be interested in collaborating with us. I'm not in the academic world, but what I've had good success with is sponsoring Senior Projects for CS majors. I've been sponsoring projects that are open source, mostly Inkscape and SVG related. It seems that most CS programs want "real" projects for their graduates (great things to talk about in interviews) and OS makes them better. I would see no reason that GNOME couldn't sponsor some. Now, the problem might be that in the US the deadlines for projects in the 2007-2008 school year are very close if not already passed. I know for my alma mater it is the end of this week. --Ted
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