Fostering collaboration for academic teaching and research on, in, with and around our distribution

Speakers: Gunnar Wolf & Tássia Camões Araújo

Track: Introduction to Free Software & Debian

Type: BoF (45 minutes)

Room: Pado

Time: Aug 01 (Thu): 10:00

Duration: 0:45

This is the mashup of two related sessions, both trying to push Debian in academic settings — one for teaching, one for research. Their abstracts follow:

Teaching

Debian-based courses have the potential to create Debian users in “batches”, and from those, a few might even become Debian contributors! Teachers, students, parents, everyone is welcome to discuss how Debian is being used in educational programs. Come and share experiences and strategies to make Debian known and be chosen by those who decide which distro will be installed in school computers.

Research

While reviewing the talks for DebConf, I noticed we have several people presenting advances (or gathering further data) on the research we are doing for our postgraduate studies. There are several academic researchers of different fields active in our community.

In this talk, I would like to gather us all, roughly present each other our interests, and possibly help weave international collaboration networks that will benefit our various research projects, and of course, each of us as an academic.