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N3P

"N3P offers a brand new, contrasting and intrepid two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses. The training will focus on how to generate business using open source."

N3P

They missed the #1 Open Source company to watch:

N3P

"N3P offers a brand new, contrasting and intrepid two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses. The training will focus on how to generate business using open source."

N3P

From N3P:

N3P offers a two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.

The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.

The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".

Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.

N3P offers a two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source or Project Entrepreneur in Omni Communications. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.

Each year, N3P admits 80 students-20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City, 20 through a system of advanced distance learning and 40 at our new classrooms in Malmö/Copenhagen. There will be two new classes each year 2006-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.

The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.

The training in Stockholm will focus on how to generate business using open source. The training in Malmö/Copenhagen will focus on how to generate business with Omni Communication.

The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".

Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.

More interesting stuff at http://n3p.se/en.php.

Students even get free iBooks (the school is run by BSD people), a domain of their own, web space and are encouraged to start doing business immediately.

According to the school, there is an shortage of project managers that knows open source but also how to make business. By releasing 40-80 new project entrepreneurs fluent in open source each year, this will result in a huge push for open source in Scandinavia.

N3P offers a two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source or Project Entrepreneur in Omni Communications. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.

Each year, N3P admits 80 students-20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City, 20 through a system of advanced distance learning and 40 at our new classrooms in Malmö/Copenhagen. There will be two new classes each year 2006-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.

The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.

The training in Stockholm will focus on how to generate business using open source. The training in Malmö/Copenhagen will focus on how to generate business with Omni Communication.

The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".

Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.

More interesting stuff at http://n3p.se/en.php.

Students even get free iBooks (the school is run by BSD people), a domain of their own, web space and are encouraged to start doing business immediately.

According to the school, there is an shortage of project managers that knows open source but also how to make business. By releasing 40-80 new project entrepreneurs fluent in open source each year, this will result in a huge push for open source in Scandinavia.

From their web page: http://n3p.se/en.php

WELCOME TO N3P

N3P offers a brand new, contrasting and intrepid two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source or Project Entrepreneur in Omni Communications. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.

Each year, N3P admits 80 students - 20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City, 20 through a system of advanced distance learning and 40 at out new classrooms in Malmö/Copenhagen. There will be two new classes each year 2006-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.

The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.

The training in Stockholm will focus on how to generate business using open source. The training in Malmö/Copenhagen will focus on how to generate business with Omni Communication.

The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".

Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.

About N3P

N3P is a privately owned AVE/C - advanced vocational college - financed and accredited by the Swedish Department of Education. The students can apply for loans and grants from the government financing authority, CSN. N3P is no different than other colleges and universities in Sweden, except for the fact that we are encouraged to be as practical and pragmatic as possible, training our students in tough and realistic situations. Our students will not sit down to construct strategies for others - they will roll up the sleeves and do the task for themselves, thereby putting their own stakes at risk.

The school is closely associated with the corporate world and a variety of organizations, thus bringing a stream of interesting speakers, real-life assignments, and advanced uses for the student body's knowledge. The students have two 15-week intervals where they actively work in a select workplace with real-life problems and their solutions. The intense training, although in an educational setting, will have little in common with the traditional traineeship period.

Representatives for companies and organizations are at a majority on the school's Board of Directors. At N3P we are proud to have representatives from the MTG Media Group, Apple Computer, The City of Stockholm, The University of Linkoping, The National Police Board, The National Labor Market Board, Cap Gemini, SonyEricsson, The City of Malmö - as well as ten very successful individual serial entrepreneurs from media, IT and design.

The founders of N3P have worked with training and education in new media and IT for the past 20 years, successfully graduating over 50,000 students. Before N3P, they co-founded the respected MacMeckarna®, Masters of Media and the AcadeMedia group - which is now listed on the Stockholm stock market, and established as one of the largest and most successful education companies in Sweden.

I just started studying at N3P in Stockholm/Sweden, which is a ~2 year (90 weeks) full time education in "Open Source entrepreneurship". It includes everything from project management to starting your own company to "IT" and basic system administration. Everything has a focus on Open Source, primary on the server side but also on the desktop application side. We have courses on Open Source licenses, software, philosophy etc. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is in the list of course material...

Basically they thought that there are too many smart people out there with great ideas and lots of self-learnt knowledge but who are stuck in the system. "Let's make nerds into company owners."

I really like this education. Rule #1 is "Don't follow the rules." :) A big part of the education is to think outside the box, avoid bureaucracy, turn crazy ideas into reality and revolutionize the world. :)

Anyway, sorry for the rant. To get to the point: When we started, everyone got an iBook to use for the course. They chose to go with Mac because it has really low support costs for them ("it just works"), and it's based on UNIX so we can run and test most Open Source applications locally without hassle (through Fink or DarwinPorts). They explicitly state that we are free to format it and install Linux or BSD though, no courses rely on Mac-specific software.

Oh, and .doc is a banned file format. :)

"Mac OS X hasn't had any viruses since the OS was launched," says Bill Rosenkrantz, the head of Macintosh products at Symantec, the big antivirus firm. "It's more difficult to attack the Apple system than Windows."

So it goes.

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N3P : Two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source and (soon) Project Entrepreneur in OmniCom!

"Mac OS X hasn't had any viruses since the OS was launched," says Bill Rosenkrantz, the head of Macintosh products at Symantec, the big antivirus firm. "It's more difficult to attack the Apple system than Windows."

So it goes.

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N3P : Two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source and (soon) Project Entrepreneur in OmniCom!

Fuck, I'm old. Sigh.

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N3P: Two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source!

Fuck, I'm old. Sigh.

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N3P: Two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source!

Secondly - Office 12 is suicide. Ordinary users hate GUI changes. It doesn't matter if the new GUI is good or not. There are probably tens of thousands of users here on Slashdot that agree on the problem of persuading people to make even a small jump from Windows 2000 to XP - or even worse the impossible switch to Linux or Mac.

Microsoft fumbling with Vista and Office 12 is to become the worst business miscalculation ever made, and our grandchildren will read about it in Economics 101.

N3P

Indeed. N3P offers a new two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source. Students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.

All students are using Apple iBooks.

N3P offers a brand new, contrasting and intrepid two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source. Students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.

Starting August 15 this year, N3P will admit 40 students - 20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City and 20 through a system of advanced distance learning. There will be one new class each year 2005-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.

The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.

The training will focus on how to generate business using open source. The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".

N3P is a new two-year college level training, financed and accredited by the Swedish Department of Education, in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.

N3P

N3P is a new two-year college level training, financed and accredited by the Swedish Department of Education, in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.

N3P

Learn how to make a fortune.

N3P is a two year, government financed (free as in beer) college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.

N3P

No info available yet on their web site but according to a friend, the management are long time open source users, mostly BSD-people. Students will even get their own Apple Powerbook 12" for free.