Archive for the 'Education' Category
Summer projects for students
Hey students! Looking for something fun to do this summer? Do you want to be part of the coolest open source project ever?
If you haven’t been accepted already, you’re a little late for Google Summer of Code. However, there are still lots of great opportunities to do open source work this summer. We list thousands [...]
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University Outreach and the Google Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme has been a great vehicle for university outreach. For the 2008 running of GSoC, the Eclipse Foundation received student 127 applications from almost as many institutions. Most of the students submitting proposals were currently enrolled in undergraduate programmes, but many where pursuing graduate-level studies. I’m pretty sure that [...]
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CASCON 2008
I spent a couple of hours at CASCON 2008 today. The conference, brought to us by the good folks at IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS). This conference brings together researchers from industry and university to learn from each other and share what they’ve been working on. I attended today to scope out the work [...]
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CoFFEE anyone?
Scott beat me to the punch here, but I think this is interesting, so I want to share more…
The Lead Project, a 3-year European Union funded research project, has created an interesting bit of software that they’re calling CoFFEE (Cooperative Face2Face Educational Environment). The focus of the project is to support problem solving activities in [...]
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Eclipse IDE for Education
Dwight Deugo and I have been relatively quietly pounding away on a new “Eclipse IDE for Education” component in the SOC project (though I did blog about this a few posts back). The idea is to try and reduce some of the complexity faced by first time users of Eclipse who are in the process [...]
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Eclipse IDE for Education
I just created bug 239808, Eclipse IDE for Education, as a proposal for a new component in the SOC project. Please add your comments on the bug. While you’re at it, we’re looking for volunteers…
The proposal originates from the need to provide a streamlined environment to help first-year undergraduate-level university students ease into the combined [...]
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EBERT on Sprint Titan
Radoslav has taken it upon himself to get EBERT running on Sprint Titan (based on eRCP). How cool is that? Let me answer that for you: very cool.
See some screenshots here. I’m looking forward to Radoslav’s contributions to the project.
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