Hey Mel, A few comments. On the Pitch to Profs: - Not sure what NDA is :-) - I'm not sure what you mean by "freely remixable". Do you mean reusable and customizable materials? - The "optional interactive online tutorials" are interactive with real people? It isn't apparent from the description as on first read I thought it was an automated tutorial. If so, it would be helpful to know who is providing the tutorials.
I see no problem with the fine print. I do note that you may get questions from some institutions about navigating the Intellectual Property hurdle so you might want to be prepared for that. On another note, I was reading the "Value to RedHat" section. I think that in addition to the advantages that you note, I'd also like to add that RedHat is building a large store of goodwill in the academic community. POSSE's are becoming known in the academic community and RedHat's (and your) willingness to listen to faculty and to provide help is generating publicity within the community. This is a less quantifiable value, but should provide RedHat with positive play at many levels in academia. This positive image should ripple through faculty to students and hopefully gain RedHat both developers and customers in the long-run. I note that Greg Hislop and I both promoted POSSEs and RedHat to multiple NSF Program Officers during the CCLI/TUES conference a couple of weeks ago. Just my 2 cents, Heidi -----Original Message----- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Mel Chua Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:55 AM To: TOS Subject: [TOS] Red Hat's education strategy DRAFT: would you want to take this offer? In the spirit of release early, release often... == Short version == Professors!, can you do me a favor if you have 10 minutes and check out http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Red_Hat_education_strategy#Pitch_to_ professors and http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Red_Hat_education_strategy#Fine_prin t? This is what I'm thinking about advertising to professors at SIGCSE, and I'm wondering if it sounds like an attractive/reasonable offer to faculty. Basically: would you bite? Should we do it? (POSSE alumni would be eligible for this too!) I'm looking for feedback on what we're offering and/or how we're pitching it. (Yes, I know this is an incomplete description - if folks want, I would be happy to explain design rationale, etc. and why we came up with this, but I'm really interested in initial reactions to that text alone, and what questions it raises.) The rest of the wiki page is incredibly messy and incoherent, so just look at and give feedback on those two sections unless you really want to spend a lot of time on something that will shift rapidly over the next week. Thanks! --Mel == Longer context == I've been working on Red Hat's education strategy for the next year a bit over the past 2 months, and with all my time over the past 2 days; we're going to be converging on this by the end of the month - though it's an evolving document, it'll be in polished "release" format for Red Hat executive +1 at the start of March, and then we'll see where it goes. It's not done. It's not even alpha. It's rough, incoherent, has missing parts - but this is the raw, uncensored source, there's no "secret behind the scenes" version and then an "edited" one for the public, I'm doing all my work right here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Red_Hat_education_strategy So, a few important things to note here: * Did I mention this was raw and incoherent? I'm still working on it and will post here again later (late next week) when it's been whipped into understandable shape. Right now there are logical gaps, math errors, the structure of the document is terrible, etc... but if you want to see a work in progress, here it is. * We're exploring options, not making commitments. What we are trying to do is practice the open source way by letting people see (and contribute to) our work in progress while we are trying out ideas - just because something's on here does NOT mean we're necessarily going to do it! (When it is, we'll say so.) Questions, comments, flames, etc - fire away. I'm mostly letting folks know I'm working on this and that I'm working on it here. It's *not* yet good, it's *not* yet coherent, it's pretty tough to figure out how to get involved *right now* - it's pre-alpha, what do you expect? :) Major thanks to Max Spevack and Sebastian Dziallas for helping considerably with the hacking to date; if anything on that page makes sense right now, it's probably their fault. --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
