[TOS] Does Red Hat or Canonical have any student competitions?

Dave Neary dneary at gnome.org
Thu Feb 24 20:39:09 UTC 2011


Hi,

What's their budget? Making something concrete with Arduinos would be my
preference.

Cheers,
Dave.

Kevin Cole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here at Gallaudet University, due to the English literacy barriers faced
> by many deaf individuals, our students tend to skew a bit older than
> average, since so many resources depend on written language.  The
> database class, plus guests, just had a presentation by Oracle about
> their ThinkQuest competition, and after getting excited, about half of
> the audience learned that they were over the age limit for the competition.
> 
> The prof's got them thinking about Microsoft Imagine Cup now.  (Haven't
> checked the age limits there.)
> 
> Ewww! I, naturally want to push something that's at least sorta friendly
> to FOSS.
> 
> I mentioned GSoC and the OLPC Contributors program but I think the
> professor's looking for a "competition" rather than a "project".
>  Personally, I also think our students would do better with
> "collaboration" rather than "competition" since (a) you don't "lose" and
> (b) it's open-ended: Students who participate in such efforts go on to
> become professionals who participate in such efforts and end up
> mentoring the current crop of students who go on to become
> professionals...  Ain't recursion grand? ;-)
> 
> Thoughts?  Opportunities?
> 
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