Change Y (Our) World with OSUM
Wednesday Oct 29, 2008
Sun announced the Open Source University Meetup (OSUM - pronounced "awesome") today at EduCause so I thought I'd share a few thoughts with you. If you're interested in an audio version, you can check the OSUM segment on Sun News Radio.
OSUM is a global community of students that are passionate about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and how it is Changing (Y) Our World. Before you ask, this is not a typo. We say that FOSS can Change Your World because it opens up great new opportunities for student learning, collaboration and career advancement. We say it can Change Our World because FOSS promotes digital freedoms, opportunities and innovation that benefits our global community. Hence, Change (Y) Our World. We call it a ‘Meet-up to encourage collaboration between student groups to create an even stronger open source community. I'll be blogging later on the Change (Y) Our World theme.
The OSUM Community lives online and on hundreds of university campuses around the world. These OSUM Clubs work to educate students about the benefits of FOSS. OSUM Clubs typically conduct monthly meetings through which they provide technical demonstrations of open source software and conduct hands-on labs and student projects. They also inform students about about free students resources such as the Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) which offers online web courses so that students can get trained and certified to prepare them for new careers in the IT industry.
The OSUM Community is also a social networking site that enables all of the OSUM Clubs to connect with tens of thousand student developers to learn, share and collaborate as a community. OSUM members also have fun making friends with other coders with the same passion for FOSS.
All students coders are invited to join this global social networking community and connect to thousands of students from around the world. Just go to osum.sun.com, register and get started with Changing (Y) Our World.
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Cool, Gary! You got a blog :)