was: Abstract; is: Ari Jolma - please look at.

[Arnulf Christl (CCGIS)]

> Chris Holmes wrote:
>> Eventually I think I would really like to see an 'academic' committee,
>> focused more on getting academics and indeed students to use and
>> contribute to open source.  I see this as different from the core
>> curriculum stuff, which I also think is vitally important.  But whereas
>> that's focused on using the OS tools to teach, this would be more
>> oriented towards getting those working in academia involved in the whole
>> open source process.  The most obvious is academics doing bleeding edge
>> work, get them to not only use OS packages, but lay out the mechanisms
>> for them to roll back their changes in.  Lots of code just gets thrown
>> away, and some of it can be very useful in the OS world.  The other is
>> to encourage 'students' to see themselves as potential contributors.
>> Many see their work as not 'real' until they get in to a paying job,
>> when in reality they do some of the best work.  Ideally we could capture
>> some of that energy for open source.
>
> Chris,
>
> I completely agree!  I think Prof. Ari Jolma was asking about ways of
> better connecting university research work and open source projects
> a number of months ago on one of the mailing lists.  Basically, how to
> setup research projects with open source in a way that the research work
> gets disseminated and put to "real world" use if it goes reasonably well.
>
> /me seaches through over 100 threads in his in-box that mention Ari Jolma.
>
> Aha, here it is:
>
>    http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2005-August/002463.html
>
> Best regards,
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Hey,
good that you mention it, I had seconded the nomiation of Ari Jolma as a
member for the OSGeo Foundation, but I just found that my encomium didn't
show up either in the Comments or the Comments Cont'd (is that the French
version?). So if by any chance you have a vote left over have a look at
the email Frank points to above. Ari already does a lot of what we are
trying to get going so hard and I would very much like to see his
potential activated for us (egoistic as we are). Currently his nomination
tag looks a little bleak. He is not bleak though, just Finn.

Best,
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Arnulf Christl
http://www.ccgis.de