The announcement also mentions targeted topics, including: "Rich and intuitive computing experiences for non-tech-savvy users"
Sounds to me like an excellent opportunity to fund some notebook development, especially some of the requested features for collaboration, or to make the notebook experience "richer." A small group has been preparing a proposal to the US National Science Foundation to support some education-related work with Sage, and a draft will be posted here very soon. That might be helpful reading for anyone interested pursuing this. The announcement also touts the global nature of past awards. Sage ought to be able to put together a truly global team to pursue something like this. Rob On Dec 22, 3:12 am, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear sage-devel and sage-edu, > > I have just found out about a funding opportunity for collaborative > research between academia and HP Labs. See the announcement at > > http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/oct-dec/10proposals.html > > At least one of the target topics could be of interest to Sage > developers: > > ----------------------- from the announcement -------------------------- > Also new in 2010 is a collaboration between HP Labs and the HP Office of > Global Social Innovation to include a topic on Cloud Computing Services > in Education, designed to fund cloud computing service applications that > can support global transformations in education, and facilitate > innovative teaching and learning concepts. > > “We are very excited about the opportunity to attract innovative > proposals through the Innovation Research Program,” said Jeannette > Weisschuh, director of HP’s Office of Global Social Innovation. “Cloud > Services in Education is a very relevant area for many educational > institutions. We aim to support the development of cloud services > applications to help closing existing gaps, to reward excellence and to > showcase some of the great solutions that are available already in the > academic community for the benefit of many more institutions.” > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Best, > Alex > > -- > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne > -- Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
