Re: Request for EDU contacts

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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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.
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
>
> --
> PostgreSQL
> Consulting, Development, Support, Training
> 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/
> The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997
>
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Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD
Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OpenOffice.org

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
> >
> > --
> > PostgreSQL
> > Consulting, Development, Support, Training
> > 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/
> > The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Spi-general mailing list
> > Spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
> > http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
>
>
>
> --
> Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD
> Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> OpenOffice.org
>
--
PostgreSQL
Consulting, Development, Support, Training
503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997

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
>>>
>>> --
>>> PostgreSQL
>>> Consulting, Development, Support, Training
>>> 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/
>>> The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Spi-general mailing list
>>> Spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
>>> http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD
>> Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>> OpenOffice.org
>>
> --
> PostgreSQL
> Consulting, Development, Support, Training
> 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/
> The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997
>