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

[David Bolter <dtb gnome org>]

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 discussion about this at GUADEC. I'm also in
> contact with two or three other people who are interested in this.
>
> I think we'd need to create a mailing list and start organizing the work
> there, especially what will be the next actions. There are already a few
> ideas about how to make more use of GNOME for teaching. Of course, more
> focus on the research side would be great too!
>
> Fernando, do you want to take care of the mailing list creation? :-)
>
>   

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. Please let me know if I can be of help (committee or 
otherwise). Do we have someone to lead this effort?

cheers,
David