Red Hat’s POSSE introduces academics to FOSS

“Greg DeKoenigsberg, Senior Community Architect at Red Hat has
been promoting the FOSS as an educational resource for over a year,
most notably at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. He notes that,
while many post-secondary instructors express an interest in using
FOSS in the class room, when asked about implementing a program,
they balk.

“”Mostly, it’s some combination of ‘I don’t have time’ and ‘it’s
scary,’ DeKoenigsberg says of the responses he receives from
instructors. “It’s getting started that’s the thing. So the
question became, ‘What’s the best way of getting professors to
participate and to get their students to participate in open source
development?'”

“One of DeKoenigsberg’s answers, hastily assembled in March, was
POSSE. Chris Tyler, a professor at Seneca College and one of
POSSE’s organizers, explains that the students were carefully
selected.”

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