Re: Student Project Opportunities

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Hi Ross,

I cannot say thanks enough for this link.  What an awesome resource.

Cheers,
Tim

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:06 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:
> Tim,
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> You and people like you should take a look at
> http://www,teachingopensource.org a new community addressing the
> issues you address. Including having a mentoring project
> http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects
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> We'd be very happy to help you reach out to students in the way you descr=
ibe.
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> Ross
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> 2009/5/14 Tim Cook <[email protected]>:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am not an educator myself though I didn't do a bad job with my
> > kids. ;-)
> >
> > But I do have a number of friends that are in higher education and one
> > of their most perplexing chores at times is helping undergrad, Masters
> > and PhD students develop solid, meaningful project ideas.
> >
> > I believe that I have developed an idea that can help in some cases.
> >
> > I am the leader of an open source software project that is focused on a
> > leading edge information model that provides semantic interoperability
> > between healthcare systems of all types.
> >
> > Within this project and within the broader open source communities ther=
e
> > are opportunities for both applied and theoretical projects.  Of course
> > as a project lead I do have a preference for the applied type. ;-)
> >
> > There are opportunities not only for the obvious programmer, IT analyst
> > types.  But also in economics, social sciences, business,  and of cours=
e
> > all of the healthcare domains in general.
> >
> > I will volunteer my time to help mentor your students on how open sourc=
e
> > communities work.  I have over 15 years experience working with free
> > software and more than 10 of those specifically in healthcare. I hope
> > that many of them work directly or indirectly on my project. I will
> > provide all of the support I possibly can for them.
> >
> > What I expect from the student is that they will participate in and
> > contribute original ideas to online discussions and make attempts to
> > learn the importance of the history and future of openly available
> > specifications and standards; especially in fields such as healthcare. =
I
> > expect that I will have access to any publications they produce
> > regarding this project or open source in general.  I do realize that in
> > certain situations there are publication restrictions prior to gaining
> > credit, etc.  But at least access to and the right to publish an
> > abstract and citation; please.
> >
> > If they are doing an applied project where they are developing
> > components for the project, they and you, will need to know that all
> > contributions are only accepted for publication under the Mozilla
> > tri-license. This allows both proprietary and free/open source use of
> > their code as long as it contains full acknowledgement of their work.
> >
> > All students will be expected to become familiar with the tools we use
> > in management and development of the project.
> >
> > The project is hosted on Launchpad at http://launchpad.net/oship
> > Launchpad provides us a wide array of project management and planning
> > tools.  Some of the largest open source projects are hosted there.
> >
> > Please do pass this email on to colleagues, higher education newsgroups
> > and on groups you may belong to on social networking sites such as
> > LinkedIn.
> >
> > If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at this email
> > address.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Tim Cook
> >
> > --
> > Timothy Cook, MSc
> > Health Informatics Research & Development Services
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