[Events] Is "Open Source Comes to Campus" needed?

[Jessica McKellar]

I would love to see this happen and help craft the survey /
investigate prior results in this space.

-Jessica


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> Hi events people,
>
> While preparing for a quick talk at SFSU about campus.openhatch.org, I
> realized that we don't have a data-based answer to the following question,
> or anything quite like it:
>
> "Within the pool of recent university graduates of a CS program, what
> percentage have the skills and cultural knowledge to contribute to
> Free/Libre Open Source Softare?"
>
> It might be interesting to run a survey of seniors at one or two
> colleges/universities that we have contacts at, asking specific questions
> like "Have you ever seen a patch file?" "Have you used git?" etc., so that
> we can use that when explaining the positive impact that
> campus.openhatch.org could have. It might be interesting to break the
> results down demographically.
>
> -- Asheesh.
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