Canadian academia and open source

[Marc Lijour]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:28, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Kevin Cozens wrote:
> >> http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-09/sunflash.20050927.2.html
> >> http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-05/sunflash.20040527.1.html
> >
> > Both of the above indicate a move to StarOffice.
>
> True, but this is still useful for my research. At least these
> universities have understood the value of moving to open document
> standards, and are using a software suite that depends upon on
> OpenOffice. It's a very cautious testing-the-waters step. but a
> significant step nonetheless.

1) The University of Sherbrooke is big on Open Source. You probably know that 
already. They have a very well-known mirror at the LUG: gulus.usherbrooke.ca 
(where you can download your favorite distro).

2) Ryerson also has been using StarOffice for a while. I have seeing it for 
the couple of years I have been studying there.
	
I am doing some little thesis  related to Open Source and I am not aware of 
others Open Source projects at Ryerson, but I passed the question to my 
coordinator and to the Computer Science chair.

A couple of weeks ago I presented a formal request to have a Mandriva Linux 
mirror but I have had no feedback yet, though it is (loosely) related to my 
thesis.

I presented them also with the new Mandriva Academia program, but I had no 
feedback either.

> Thanks!
>
> - Evan
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