On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Suchakra suchakra@gmail.com wrote:
Ya, so coming to the point, I agree with Ryan on almost all points stated by him especially the one that local LUGs are dominated by Ubuntu users. Even in my campus, we have just had a local Ubuntu mirror up and working, but people have 2 take fedora discs and ISOs from me physically. The reason is simple - No proper introduction to the other distributions of linux to budding linux users. It makes one believe that Ubuntu is Linux and Linux is Ubuntu. Also in order to increase the fedora footprint, and encouraging technically sound guys (we have lots of them in our college) to contribute to the project, we need to have events and talks, be it on a small scale or large scale.
Are the students in your college already involved in contributing to FOSS ? Instead of sharply focusing on "Fedora" or, "Ubuntu" it might be good to begin with pointing to them good upstream participation practices. For example, a session that discusses the relevant bits of The Open Source Way and, Producing Open Source Software so as to make the best bits a part of the story.