Re: Request for EDU contacts

On 2008-11-24, at 17:16 , Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> 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.

Then join the group and post queries. I'm also working with Seneca
College, in Toronto. It's had success with Mozilla Firefox and other
projects/apps.

>
>
> Joshua D. Drake

-louis
>
>
>> 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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>>
>>
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>> Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD
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>>
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