Maybe not in your neck of the woods. Over the course of my education I attended three separate universities. All of which had Industrial Councils to make sure

Maybe not in your neck of the woods. Over the course of my education I attended three separate universities. All of which had Industrial Councils to make sure that their programs were teaching skills relevant to industry. All of them had industry partnerships to get their students exposed to what was current in industry. That was across the entire engineering spectrum not just Computing. I am surprised that more Computing departments haven't embraced Open Source. It seems like it would be a great way to introduce students to larger projects, and act as a great advertisement for their core areas of expertise. After all who hasn't heard of BSD, or X11. It ought to be out there along the ASME's racing events where students design and build race cars. Why shouldn't Computing students design video or audio codecs, raspberry pies, or other things for real world experience?