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Subject: Re: [oic] students...
Sounds like we're confusing open standards and open source software projects ;) Mary On 11/3/10 11:13 AM, "Louis Suárez-Potts" <Louis.Suarez-Potts@oracle.com> wrote: >The idea I have is to engage students (and their professors) in working >on open standard issues and work as an educational tactic. The place to >start: > >* Seneca college, Toronto: they already do work on OOo, Mozilla, etc., >and there is an apparatus for so engaging the students. (It comes down to >paying the college‹aka, vocational community college.) > >* Barcelona open education efforts: There is a quite strong effort in >Barcelona for open education via distance learning technology with the >aim of producing competent (certifiable) Foss workers. I would like to >engage them, anyway, in OOo production, but as we all know, easier said >than done, the code not really lending itself to casual fun. However, the >ODF standard is a different story. > >* Possibly Portland universitiesŠ. > >Resources required: we would need a mentor or mentors to help out here. >(It occurs to me that Dave E. might help, and he's a teacher, too.) These >mentors need not be that engaged in the matter and could arguably just >set tasks and supervise‹not trivial, by any means, but a scope of work >that expands the existing pool of mentors. > >Timeline: I'd like to see if we can actually do this for the final >stretch. > >Suggestions? (For instance: is this bonkers for now, plan for later; or, >how about India? China?) > >Best >louis >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: >https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >
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