Re: [oic] students...

[Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

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
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