Marketing/University Collaboration

Revision as of 09:11, 20 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.
• Qt in Education - Qt in Education Program landing page with link to Qt Course Material for educational purposes.
• Teaching Qt - "Sign up for the Qt in Education newsletter below and be the first to learn about news related to using Qt for teaching at educational institutions."

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.)