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

Karen Rustad karen.rustad at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 20:14:30 UTC 2012


I agree that this would be interesting and useful. If we can get a survey
together, I could get it distributed to the CS students at Berkeley.

-- Karen

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:09 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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