I was told that Tel-Aviv University is giving an interesting workshop this summer: a workshop on writing free software. See:
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~eddiea/workshop-summer-2003.html According to that page, the students will be taught a bit about Linux and free software (including a lecture by our esteemed friend, Muli), and then asked to write software in small 2-3 person teams, using open source and free software methodologies. Needless to say, if we (the community) are "given" a bunch of bright students, it would be great if instead of writing the N+1th free tetris clone they would actually work on something the community needs - perhaps even something that the Israeli community needs. Like is written in the aforementioned page, good free software usually stems from a real needs. But it is likely that most of these students used Linux very little (if at all) and are unlikely to know what is really needed. I'm sure the teacher of the workshop will give them ideas, but I thought it would be nice if people on this list could also raise ideas for project, and I'll pass them on to the students (I know one of them). Please read the workshop's page for what the projects have to be. In short, it should be something that 2-3 people can do in a relaxed summer, something useful and non-trivial, something that involves programming (it cannot be only about translation, for example). It would be nice if the project had an added value for the Israeli community, but it can also be something which has nothing to do with Israel. I hope that other universities will follow TAU in this nice initiative. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jul 6 2003, 7 Tammuz 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Sign on a back of truck: "Overtakers http://nadav.harel.org.il |beware, or you might meet the Undertaker" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
