My apologies, everyone! My address book got quite confused. ;-(, and I didn't check. On the other hand, the points I made are worthy: I would love to see more Foss projects included in universities, and as a Sun community manager, I naturally have a certain bent. But, my apologies again. -louis On 2008-09-12, at 21:28 , Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:

Mark Surman, now of Mozilla but previously of the Shuttleworth Foundation, sent me a note recently about the work that some instructors are doing at the University of Sao Paulo. They are Felipe Gomes and Marcio Galli. In a nutshell, they want a stronger Mozilla presence there, in the CS dept., and to work with Moz. to teach students Foss, programming. There are also contests, such as the wonderfully named, "Obscure Code Contest." (In Portuguese it may differ.)

I'd like to see if Marcio and Felipe would be interested in Sun technology. It might also be worthwhile to collaborate with Mozilla in endeavours like this, rather than, as it would seem, competing for resources--instructors, that is.

So: do we have a presence at this university? Do we already have a relationship with Felipe or Marcio? (And, I can send in more information on USP's events.)

cheers, Louis