[TOS] Red Hat's education strategy DRAFT: would you want to take this offer?

[Heidi Ellis]

As for the tutorials (optional interactive online tutorials). I would
rephrase as:
"optional online interactive tutorials supported by RedHat professionals" or
RedHat-trained professionals
Heidi


-----Original Message-----
From: Mel Chua [mailto:mel at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:01 AM
To: Heidi Ellis
Cc: 'TOS'
Subject: Re: [TOS] Red Hat's education strategy DRAFT: would you want to
take this offer?

Very helpful comments and questions, Matt & Heidi - it's good to know 
we're at least mostly on the right track. Keep the questions coming! 
First round of responses below.

> - Not sure what NDA is :-)

Sorry! Non-Disclosure Agreement - it's common, when you're doing work 
for a corporation, to not be able to release your work or even sometimes 
tell anyone else what you're working on. For instance, I am *still* 
frustrated that I have to describe my senior capstone project (which I'm 
pretty proud of, and which has had an international ~45,000+ user impact 
annually) as "developing embedded control software for a modular 
mechatronic system using the CANopen protocol" (or something similarly 
obtuse).

> - I'm not sure what you mean by "freely remixable". Do you mean reusable
and
> customizable materials?

Yes - basically, CC-BY-SA.

> - The "optional interactive online tutorials" are interactive with real
> people? It isn't apparent from the description as on first read I thought
it
> was an automated tutorial. If so, it would be helpful to know who is
> providing the tutorials.

Oh! Yes, real people. Namely, uh... me. :) At least next school year. 
IRC-based classroom with materials and tools set up beforehand, 
something like this: 
http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/07/fedora-classroom-tuesday-sep-14-at-1600-u
tc-working-with-people-who-arent-there-basic-distributed-collaboration-tools
/ 
- 
http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/15/practicing-what-you-teach-first-followup-
on-fedora-classroom-on-distributed-collaboration-tools/ 
has a link to the full logs.

What would be a better way of describing it?

> I see no problem with the fine print. I do note that you may get questions
> from some institutions about navigating the Intellectual Property hurdle
so
> you might want to be prepared for that.

Noted. I was curious about that, really, and I'm not sure how to prepare 
for these questions. I might save 'em all up and then take them to Pam 
(one of Red Hat's lawyers, she was on this list earlier fielding our 
questions about getting "POSSE" trademarked).

> On another note, I was reading the "Value to RedHat" section. I think that
> in addition to the advantages that you note, I'd also like to add that
> RedHat is building a large store of goodwill in the academic community.

How can we get more stories like the "you + Greg talking with NSF 
program officers" or... basically, how do I respond if I'm asked the 
question "this seems multiple-steps removed from revenue streams, why 
not just spend our time working directly on the mindshare of our 
customers - IT folks, CTOs, CIOs, etc?"

--Mel