Re: Grant Application: Promotion of FOSS in undergraduate Computer Science, Information Technology and Software Engineering degrees at the University of Newcastle
Brent Wallis <[email protected]>
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+1 on the proposal. A worthwhile thing based on the submission and followups. @All...there is absolutely NO relation here btw.... :-) BW On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Mark Wallis <mark.wallis-6agwQxOQk07sSf2/[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Nathan and Paul for your feedback. > > > On 3 Apr 2017, at 3:32 pm, Nathan Bailey <web-4Bvdn4bLHr/[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Mark, is there any chance you could collaborate on this with another > uni? Universities tend to be far more understanding of sharing coursework > with each other than with the general public, so there may be some > opportunity to collaborate on the "closed" bits as well as the open bits. > > While hesitant to bite off more than I can chew, I had thoughts that if > the project went well we would write a paper and submit it to one of the > leading Australian Computer Science Education conferences - probably ACE. > This is the “Computer Science Education” conference and would definitely > help promote the approach across other ANZ educational institutions. > > There is a fair bit of “we don’t know what we don’t know” here as well. I > doubt we will have a clear view of just how bad a problem we have here > (i.e. how much FOSS-unfriendly content we have) until we get through the > initial review part of the grant. I think it’s important we complete at > least that part of the grant before engaging any other institutions. > > Regards, > Mark. > =============================== > Dr. Mark Wallis (Associate Lecturer) > > School of Electrical Engineering and Computing > Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment > The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, 2308, NSW > AUSTRALIA > > Webpage: > https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/mark-wallis > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus