[Ilugc] FOSS subject adoption!
- From: aanjhan@xxxxxxxxx (Aanjhan R)
- Date: Wed Jan 13 02:05:03 2010
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:19 PM, benedict nicholas
<benedictnicholas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2. Is FOSS subject, a part of curriculum in Colleges/Universities abroad?
In universities abroad, generally there is no separate subject/course
teaching Open Source. However, people encourage / use a number of
open-source tools/applications (e.g. moodle, mediawiki, *nix) for
their regular courses (I am yet to see a lab/univ using turboC ;) ).
They also strive to open-source whatever work they produce from their
research. In fact , off-late there are a number of research groups who
push themselves to publish reproducible results; i.e. one can pick up
their tools, code and some platform details and reproduce the results
in-order to facilitate improvements by other research groups around
the globe.
Some university have Open Source labs like
http://open.utoronto.ca/
and
http://osuosl.org/
There might be _very_ special(ised) cases where they have a separate
course titled "Free and Open Source Software". I am not aware of many.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Aanjhan
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