As for the tutorials (optional interactive online tutorials). I would rephrase as: "optional online interactive tutorials supported by RedHat professionals" or RedHat-trained professionals Heidi
-----Original Message----- From: Mel Chua [mailto:m...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:01 AM To: Heidi Ellis Cc: 'TOS' Subject: Re: [TOS] Red Hat's education strategy DRAFT: would you want to take this offer? Very helpful comments and questions, Matt & Heidi - it's good to know we're at least mostly on the right track. Keep the questions coming! First round of responses below. > - Not sure what NDA is :-) Sorry! Non-Disclosure Agreement - it's common, when you're doing work for a corporation, to not be able to release your work or even sometimes tell anyone else what you're working on. For instance, I am *still* frustrated that I have to describe my senior capstone project (which I'm pretty proud of, and which has had an international ~45,000+ user impact annually) as "developing embedded control software for a modular mechatronic system using the CANopen protocol" (or something similarly obtuse). > - I'm not sure what you mean by "freely remixable". Do you mean reusable and > customizable materials? Yes - basically, CC-BY-SA. > - 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. Oh! Yes, real people. Namely, uh... me. :) At least next school year. IRC-based classroom with materials and tools set up beforehand, something like this: http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/07/fedora-classroom-tuesday-sep-14-at-1600-u tc-working-with-people-who-arent-there-basic-distributed-collaboration-tools / - http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/15/practicing-what-you-teach-first-followup- on-fedora-classroom-on-distributed-collaboration-tools/ has a link to the full logs. What would be a better way of describing it? > 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. Noted. I was curious about that, really, and I'm not sure how to prepare for these questions. I might save 'em all up and then take them to Pam (one of Red Hat's lawyers, she was on this list earlier fielding our questions about getting "POSSE" trademarked). > 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. How can we get more stories like the "you + Greg talking with NSF program officers" or... basically, how do I respond if I'm asked the question "this seems multiple-steps removed from revenue streams, why not just spend our time working directly on the mindshare of our customers - IT folks, CTOs, CIOs, etc?" --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
