Re: Request for EDU contacts

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 17:10 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> Josh,
> Let's work together on this, as I've also been working in this space
> and so have others, including Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation. We
> can discuss this offlist, and on the Google Group I set up a while
> ago, though it is more focused on universities than general education,
> and I tend to think now the scope must be broadened.
>
> See: http://groups.google.ca/group/foss-universities
>
> It used to have an embarrassing amount of spam. I spent some quality
> time deleting it.

My focus right now is Higher Ed, so Universities and Community Colleges.
The reason is, they are the kids that will be affected the quickest and
have the most opportunity to influence decisions in the next 5 years.

Joshua D. Drake

> Louis
>
> On 2008-11-24, at 16:10 , Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > As part of my current FOSS mission, I am reaching out to United States
> > based educational instituions and offering to talk to ACM, CS, IEEE
> > students. What I have found however, is that a lot of these folks are
> > either very busy or contact web pages are out of sync with reality.
> > So I
> > thought I would appeal to peeps on this list.
> >
> > If you have a contact at a University, I would appreciate an
> > introduction. If you would like to see some of the talks I have done
> > you
> > can view them here:
> >
> > http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2008/11/you_are_not_good_enough_for_open_source/
> > http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2008/11/the_open_source_job_market/
> > http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2008/10/on_the_morning_of_west_east_08_appears/
> >
> > And any of you who have attended PgConference: West/East have seen me
> > speak.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
> >
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