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[Svetlana Belkin <belkinsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the delay, this biology capstone is taking all of my time that
I'm wake along with everything else school related.  Reply is in-line as
always...

On 03/26/2014 11:04 AM, Willem Ligtenberg wrote:
> I am Willem Ligtenberg, I have a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering. And I
> now work as a bioinformatician/biostatistician for a consultancy company
> which really values Open Source.
> We try release all software we write under an open source license if the
> clients are willing.

Hey there,

I'm Svetlana Belkin, A.K.A belkinsa.  I know that we have chatted in the
IRC channel yesterday.  I would like to thank you for this e-mail
because it's a real introduction with feedback/comments for the team and
that's what we need right now.

W00t for where you work.

> And we will show them the advantages of using (and creating) OSS.
> 
> In my opinion we can at least have four goals:
> 1) help scientists find FLOSS alternatives
> 2) get universities to teach FLOSS instead of proprietary software. (or
> at least mention/show it...)
> 3) get scientists to be more involved in Ubuntu
> 4) try to convince scientist to make a career in FLOSS development
> 
> 1) is the easiest
> 2) is very difficult, we will have to ensure there is teaching material
> 3) I actually don't know what to do here specifically.
> 4) I think we should highlight good success stories of people who
> focussed on creating FLOSS in the academic/business world

At this moment, I have no comments to add to what you have said but I
will add this to the goals
blueprint:https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-scientists/+spec/goals
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Svetlana Belkin A.K.A: belkinsa
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