Marketing/University Collaboration

Revision as of 14:40, 12 October 2010

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MeeGo is a very interesting platform for universities: OS based on standard Linux enabling open and powerful mobile hardware. How can the MeeGo project help promoting MeeGo related activities and materials with a focus on universities?

MeeGo activities in universities

Types of activities could include:

• Production of free training materials: tutorials, videos, slideware...
• MeeGo platform and devices used for training.
• MeeGo platform and devices used in research.
• Students' competitions.
• Support for students projects published in commercial channels.
• Local promotion and collaboration through Local MeeGo Networks.
• Channel for device seeding through the (proposed) Community Device Program.
• What else?

Interesting news

Add any news relevant to MeeGo and university collaboration.

• 2010-08-24 Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center at the University of Oulu (Finland).
• 2010-06-07 MeeGo innovation in Finnish Universities gets accelerated by Digia's MeeGo training material and Intel's development environments.

Interesting resources

Add any resources useful to anybody interested in MeeGo university collaboration.

• Forum Nokia for universities
• Nokia Research Center open innovation page, listing universities with tight partnership.
• Finnish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications has regular Maemo related activities, now transitioning to MeeGo.

Who is Who

If you have any relation with MeeGo and/or universities interested in MeeGo activities list your name, organization and role. Links and contact details are useful!

• Thomas Perl (University of Technology Vienna) - Student, Tutor
• Jarkko Moilanen (University of Tampere) - PhD Student/Researcher
• Stephen Gadsby (Millersville University of Pennsylvania) - Information Technologies staff
• Add yourself here (Format: Name (e-mail or user page link) (Organization) - Your role explained.)