Marketing/University Collaboration

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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.
• MeeGo research laboratories in universities.
• 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."
• Intel Academic Community for MeeGo - Helps professors prepare MeeGo mobile development curriculum for university students.

Who is Who

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

• Hanne Linaae - Program Manager for the Qt in Education program at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
• Ian Lawrence(Nokia University Collaborations Program Lead)
• Jarkko Moilanen (University of Tampere) - PhD Student/Researcher
• Stephen Gadsby (Millersville University of Pennsylvania) - Information Technologies staff
• Suresh Chande (Nokia MeeGo Devices) - Responsible for University Collaboration (India in particular) and also Product owner @ MeeGo Devices responsible for Office Domain
• Thomas Perl (University of Technology Vienna) - Student, Tutor
• Yu Kuifei Senior Researcher, NRC Beijing
• Add yourself here (Format: Name (e-mail or user page link) (Organization) - Your role explained.)