the level of programing skill needed to be able to give back to the debian community is high. it is high enough that i have been unable to find a way to involve the students in my lab (who all agree to put their work under an open source license) at very special computer only university in japan.
if the academic and free source community that are both based on sharing knowledge can find a way to work with each other it might be of some help to both communities. i need to find people in the debian community that is willing to experiment in trying to establish an a link between the free source community and the Computer Arts Lab of the University of Aizu.
Example of recent free source work :
one of my graduate students created an free source 3D graphics engine (hidden surface removal) that works on all cell phones in java. the lowest powered cell phone that had only 10k space of java space was use. it had no graphics engine ... the code was 3K in size.
Most cell phones are now 100 times more powerful and have 3D graphics engines... all of course are proprietary engines that are not compatible. ( anyone interested in this code i will sent it to you )
What might be possible:
in the 4th year of study each student must do some computer research project that is their choice and write a 4 page paper called a graduation thesis in english. as a professor i am to offer / suggest a number of projects for the students to choose from. this is due in the next two weeks
is there anyone in debian group that would be willing to suggest a graduation thesis project ( i will post it within the university as a suggested project ) and remotely guide the graduation thesis work for one year. the graduation thesis work can be an on going project such as the two 4 year projects: music driven animation and a P2P online community ( sparkle gate ).
Regards,
-- Carl Vilbrandt, Associate Professor University of Aizu________________________________Computer Arts Lab Tsuruga, lkki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580 JAPAN phone 81-242-37-2792 / fax 81-242-37-2772 / email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
Chris Teodorski wrote on [email protected],Hello all -- I'm interested in finding a way in which I can give back to the community. I've been using GNU\Linux for several years now and having settled on Debian as my distro of choice, I decided it was time to offer my assistance. I'm not a hacker so unless the Debian community is interested in introducing very poorly written code into Debian then I'm not of any use there. I am fairly technically literate (my day job is as a SysAdmin) and my degree is in English Lit, so it seems that I am a perfect fit for the documentation project. So, I'm asking if I can help out and how?Sometimes I wish that I had a degree in English Lit. Like you, documenting the system is also my principal Debian interest. Since twenty-four hours have passed and no one on debian-doc seems publicly to have spoken, I should refer you over to [1] and [2]. Investigate; then, if you feel willing, able and interested to contribute there, introduce yourself on [2].
