Re: [oic] students...

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

On 11/3/10 11:30 AM, "Louis Suárez-Potts" <Louis.Suarez-Potts@oracle.com>
wrote:

>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. :-)

Along with a couple of others!

Mary


>
>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 universitiesÅ .
>>> 
>>> 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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