Academic Involvement in Ubuntu

[Gustavo Franco]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:44:11 +0100, Daniel Holbach <dh at mailempfang.de> wrote:
> > in germany the companies hire someone working on his/her diploma theseis
> > (if it fits their needs) and pay him/her a little fee...so they get a
> > very motivated employee with high level knowledge for a cheap fee (and a
> > due date), probably canonical would be willing to back it this way....?
> 
> As I'm not the one to decide on Canonical's finances, I'm not sure
> wether this was in order, but I think some sort of a certificate for
> later applying for a job and a Ubuntu T-Shirt signed by the Canonical
> employees should also do the trick. :-)
> 
> I think, it's really important to make sure, people know, there *is* a
> demand, to give them ideas and to give them sort of a "consultant" or
> contact person for questions about their project. Making students feel
> supported and to know they can make a change should be point #1 on the
> agenda.
> 
> So, are there any ideas, what students could do in a 3 or 6 months
> project?
> 
> [...]

Hi,

I guess that anyone at Canonical needs to talk about this subject, but
it can be something related to bounties[0] "project", jmo.

[0] = http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/bounties/

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