[clug] FOSS course at ANU

[steve jenkin]

tridge at samba.org wrote on 24/2/09 1:41 PM:
> Hi All,
> 
> Bob has mentioned on this list previously that he and I will be
> running a masters level course on FOSS at ANU in April. The course is
> now open for people to enrol, so if you know of anyone that might like
> to learn a bit about FOSS in a university environment then please
> point them at this site:
> 
>   http://cs.anu.edu.au/students/comp8440/
> 
> It will be interesting to see how well it works trying to teach FOSS
> in this way. Most people learn how FOSS works by absorbing it when
> they participate. 
> 
> I'd also be curious to hear from anyone that knows of any other
> university offering a course with a similar topic. I know of one that
> RedHat was involved in in North Carolina, but I don't know of any
> others.
> 
> Cheers, Tridge


I got this message back. HTH:
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I assume you know of the MasterLibre project at
http://www.nongnu.org/masterlibre/
and the course(s) that came out of that in Europe?

See e.g., http://www.igalia.com/events/master


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