Re: [oic] students...

[Louis Suárez-Potts <Louis.Suarez-Potts@oracle.com>]

Hi,

On 2010-11-03, at 11:27 , Mary McRae wrote:

> Sounds like we're confusing open standards and open source software
> projects ;)

no. We are not. I was not clear. The point here is to focus on ODF. NOT OOo. ODF is an open standard I want to get developed. OOo is the open source project. :-)

Louis


> 
> 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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