Continuing the theme of "where have you been for the past month?" - the updates are starting to trickle in.

Sebastian and I pushed some Heidi Ellis, Greg Hislop, Clif Kussmaul, and myself, with some impromptu jumping-in by Sebastian as well as Steve Jacobs.

The second one is from dinner - we (1) ate pasta and (2) asked the professors what their biggest obstacles to teaching open source were, and got some surprising answers. In a nutshell, they are: university licensing policies, student privacy policies, and IT policies. Basically, the written rules of the academic system are (for perfectly internally-rational reasons) set up in ways that end up discouraging open source participation.

Heidi also wrote a blog post on our visits with her students and should be putting out an article on that herself pretty soon. It's surprisingly difficult to articulate the conversations we had, because so much of it was stumbling around trying to find ways to translate between different cultures (open source and academia) and we only really got coherent (to ourselves) towards the end... and then articulating that to others is a whole different question.

Next up: same thing, from the Engineer of the Future conference. So... many... creative commons... images... to credit...