[TOS] Historical approach to open-source participatory development

[Leslie Hawthorn]

Hi Armen,

2009/3/16 Armen Zambrano Gasparnian <armenzg at gmail.com>

> I had completely forgotten about this!
> You are right, student driven efforts to help others get involved is really
> time consuming specially in the case of our college which is a  *commutter*
> college. Generally, not too many students were really willing to stay after
> school (including myself as the vice president :S) to get some type of
> introduction or labs to help them get involved.
>
> The only good fruits from that was James Boston who we helped out getting
> involved but after knowing him he would have been able to do the *online
> jump* to find out who was on IRC and what all was about.
>

Mike Pinkerton, who I believe is also on this list, has been teaching a
class on Open Source at George Washington University. He may have some good
insights for you there.

Hot off the heels of applications for Google Summer of Code, I can point you
to a large number of universities who are working on various Open Source
projects with their students, but these are largely small projects with the
development community largely isolated to their particular project. An
notable exception is a few bioinformatics projects that cross multiple
universities. Would these be interesting for your white paper?

Cheers,
LH

-- 
Leslie Hawthorn
http://www.hawthornlandings.org
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