On 8/26/05, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1st question, can this be part of a startup? > 2nd question, does your university expect to own the rights/IP of your > efforts > 3rd question, are you serious, or just looking for a 'project' for a grade
I am pretty sure the university will hold any rights. I am not just looking for a project for a grade, I want to do something interesting and useful, and I also need to start thinking about the future, and if I really enjoy my project then maybe it's something I'd consider focusing on in the future. > if you're serious, we can use your help! we're starting a project to create > a business dealing with used texbooks for universities on US/Canadian > college campuses. think ebay/craigslist meets the college campus. > > the project will invlove a great deal of distributed/parallel processing as > we build the grid/spidering functionality to create the underlying > databases.. I don't think my university would be too keen on this, because any work I do will, I expect, largely depend on the work of others....if something falls through then I'd be a bit screwed. But thanks anyway for the suggestion. It would, however, be perfectly acceptable to build upon a well established piece of open source software - this is very common. Thanks for all of the other suggestions, I'll research them a little bit more, and I may email some of you directly for more info if that's ok. Keep the ideas rolling :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
