Promoting Open Source in Schools

[Marc Lijour]

On Friday 16 December 2005 14:40, paul sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anyone in the Toronto area. has been involved in
> getting open source into schools and if they could share their
> experience.  

Interestingly, we are discussing how to promote CS courses in high-school in 
my CS course at OISE (UofT).

One idea which popped up in my head thanks to the discussions there, is to 
create a product within the course. This product needs obviously to be based 
on OSS.

We have nice projects around. For example, the Linux Journal came up this 
month with a Skype server installation at home!
Another popular project (see presentation in TLUG) is the Personal Video 
Recorder (hundreds of dollars at Rogers for example).

I have just contacted my colleague who runs the Entrepreneur course to propose 
her to run a joint program.

I believe this would bring considerable exposure i) to CS and Entrepreneur 
courses and ii) to the OSS projects which allowed us to succeed.
Success story + media = big bang :-)
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