OpenSolaris in universities (was Re: [osol-mktg] Spreading the word)

[Tim Foster]

Hey Bharath

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:21, Bharath Ravi Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>       I just wanted to mention a new phenomenon in tech marketing that
> i came across in India: A number of companies have resorted to giving
> away software (with support) to premier institutions in the country
> absolutely free.

Yep, that makes perfect sense : of course, OpenSolaris is already
absolutely free - but yes, there should be some contact between the
OpenSolaris community and universities everywhere. Thankfully, there
already is !

There are guys who I believe are looking at this stuff at
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/
I've Cc:d that list on this email (sorry for the cross-post)

I'd have loved it if my university had OpenSolaris instead of Linux on
the curriculum for a whole load of reasons, but I don't want to risk a
flamewar, so I'll stop there!

Perhaps the -edu folks have ideas that can help implement your excellent
suggestion ?

The question of support is one I don't know how to answer (I'm kinda
busy as is, and probably couldn't cope with taking it on myself ;-) At
the very least though, getting OpenSolaris into university curriculums
can be done *now* and perhaps support could be provided through general
interaction with the community ? Not everything has to be donated from a
corporate entity...

Thanks for the suggestion though - I think it's a good one.

	cheers,
			tim

>  In addition, they also take time to impart training (through
> developers located in the vicinity of the institutions) in the
> relevant concepts involved. For instance, a University that governs
> colleges around Bangalore mandates that the Linux environment be used
> to carry out minor projects in related to Operating Systems in general
> & Unix in particular. Linux is advocated primarily because it's free.
> Would it not be a good idea to publicize OS and impress upon the Univs
> the importance of OS to the area of  Operating Systems? So, Operating
> Systems courses could involve Solaris as a case study & use OS (which
> is free) in their projects. That'd help get word around even better, i
> thought (and you have students with the knowledge of Solaris
> graduating out). Like I mentioned earlier, this is just an observation
> I made. Comments welcome.
> Regards,
> Bharath
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