[Campus-uconn-staff] mentors

[Sean O'Brien]

I worked and went to school at UConn from 2001-2013, and I'll reach out to a few people.

Sadly, quite a few of the FOSS folks I knew on campus have jumped ship (last big advocate I knew just got a job at Red Hat).

I was with the university's software licensing group for years, so I'm pretty familiar with what's running on campus (or at least what was when I left). UConn does offer github internally, but you need a UConn NetID to access the system. Kuali is primarily a purchasing/budget system for departments and offices; beyond that, most administrative systems are proprietary or pseudo-FOSS (Oracle/PeopleSoft, Blackboard/WebCT, and so on).

There are many web apps running on the LAMP stack, an OpenSuse cluster somewhere, many WordPress instances, and a couple of mediawiki sites. The only Unix/Linux sysadmin and web dev courses offered when I was there were through Continuing Studies, but a lot has changed in a short time (those classes/degrees were reorganized).

I'll do a little research and reaching out tomorrow, and get back to the list with anything promising.

On October 9, 2014 7:06:40 PM EDT, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>UConn Storrs appears to be too far away to convince our NYC mentors to
>come. However I've taken a look around the university for mentors you
>might
>find there.
>
>Please contact as many of these people as seem reasonable.  If you'd
>like
>me to take responsibility for contacting them, that's fine.
>
>Do you know yet whether you'll be able to be at the event?  If not, who
>is
>the person who is handling the in-person day-of logistics?
>
>~ S
>
>
>0) This person is (was?) organizing an open source workshop at UConn:
>https://github.com/hsharrison
>We should ask him if he wants to mentor, and also see if he knows folks
>who
>want to mentor
>(His workshop:
>https://github.com/hsharrison/open-source-science-workshop)
>
>1) Have we reached out to the HuskyTech folks re:
>publicizing/attending/mentoring?
>http://huskytech.uconn.edu/
>
>2) This person was doing open source advocacy at UConn a decade ago --
>maybe he's still around and/or knows other folks interested in open
>source
>at the school?
>http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=libr_pubs
>
>3) This economics prof wrote a paper on open source:
>http://langlois.uconn.edu/
>the paper: https://web2.uconn.edu/ciom/Open1C.pdf
>
>4) Have we advertised the event to this group?
>http://lc.uconn.edu/communities/wimse/
>
>5) This person has published articles on open source publishing:
>http://www.lib.uconn.edu/services/liaison/Kijas.html
>http://scholarscollab.uconn.edu/tag/open-source-publishing/
>
>6) UConn apparently uses an open source financial system, described
>here:
>http://www.rsmart.com/news/university-of-connecticut-implements-kuali-financial-system-in-partnership-with-kuali-commercial-affiliate-rsmart/
>Perhaps we can ask the people mention in the article (Charles Eaton -
>http://controller.uconn.edu/ who oversees that and if they're
>interested in
>talking about it at the event)
>
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