<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Gen Kanai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gkanai@gmail.com" target="_blank">gkanai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Manish,<br>
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David Humphries at Seneca College has been teaching via Mozilla and
OSS for many years.<br>
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<a href="http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Mozilla" target="_blank">http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Mozilla</a><br>
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<a href="http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/how-mozilla-at-senecay-works/" target="_blank">http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/how-mozilla-at-senecay-works/</a><br>
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Gen<div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is brilliant! It seems to be a more advanced course, but I bet David might have some advice that will apply here as well.</div><div>
<br></div><div>This actually reminds me of the Wikipedia Education Program. What Wikipedia does is that they tie up with colleges, and as part or all of the coursework for a semester, you have to edit/improve one or more Wikipedia articles on topics that fall under that course. Usually they have 10ish "wikipedia-ified" courses running in one semester in one college.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To facilitate this, they have a set of Campus Ambassadors -- people (students, professors, etc) on campus who either already know about Wikipedia's policies (or have been trained -- usually they hold training sessions before the semester starts); and also some Online Ambassadors -- Wikipedians who guide the students online. It usually works out well, and some amazing things have come out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It might be possible to do something at a smaller scale for Firefox (or other Mozilla technologies). Help professors hold such "Mozilla courses" that get people involved in FOSS. The community is large enough so that there usually are some local Mozillians who can help out, as well as our vast pool of contributors online from which we might be able to get mentors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This won't exactly work for this particular course, but in general it might be something that can be tried without much investment of resources (We don't need to do it at WIkipedia's level)</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Manish</div><div> </div></div></div></div>