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 Contributing to free and open source software projects helps people learn  incredibly useful skills: how to code; how to collaborate; how to lead in a global community. Despite this, formal links between higher education and open source projects are rare. College and university students who want to take advantage of the resources and mentorship that come with open source development have to do so on their own time.
-It's time to change change this. '''It's time to build systematic links between free and open source software project and the world of higher education education.''' That's what we want to talk about.
+It's time to change this. '''It's time to build systematic links between free and open source software project and the world of higher education.''' That's what we want to talk about.
 ==Can you give me some examples?==
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 * [http://libresoft.es/ Universidad Rey Juan Carlos] in Madrid studies and is starting to offer courses in libre software.
 * Mozilla is in the early stages of [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Foundation:Planning:Education experimenting with an education program] to encourage more professors and universities
-* <one sentence on the OSS Watch idea>
+* [http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk OSS Watch] are developing a open education curriculum and mentoring programme embedding open source mentoring into computer science and work based learning.
 * <get RedHat / Fedora to add something>
 * <what else?>