[TOS] Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into Academic Courses

[Gregory Hislop]

Sounds great Joanie!

And I think your characterization of instructor hesitation is right on target... but so is the fact that most instructors find the idea quite appealing.  They just don't know how to make it happen.  

POSSE is a step in the right direction.  With any luck, some of the proposals we've been making to NSF will provide funding support more steps in this direction.  Of course the pace with NSF is so slow we need to keep moving forward with anything we can do to encourage more participation by students and faculty.

Cheers,

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Joanmarie Diggs
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:02 PM
To: tos at teachingopensource.org; Heidi Ellis
Subject: [TOS] Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into Academic Courses

Hey all.

Back in October I met with several professors and also Sebastian and as a result of that had an idea. And I was psyched about it. And I was going to go home and blog about it and share it with y'all. But life and work just kept happening.

Yadda, yadda, yadda, in response to Richard Stallman's question for candidates for the GNOME Foundation Board, I suddenly found myself writing the long-promised document. Apologies to those who knew about my promise and had to wait so long for me to deliver. :-/

It is here for your consideration:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-May/msg00034.html

Take care.
--joanie
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