Hi All, I've already given my intro but still you may visit my fedora wiki userpage for more info User:Suchakra. I'm in India btw. == 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. I'm doing my share but just a class of 25 prospective students every 1.5 months is hardly what I want. Also, lots of stuff is needed for such events (stickers, badges, pens etc) and it becomes absolutely difficult even if i plan to procure them myself. I can give talks and presentations but to leave a Fedora print in someone's mind we do need the stuff. On a tight budget, surely, its difficult but I hope, Ambassador's program will be willing to help. I'l make my first try at having a little event organized and see the outcome.
Oh and yes, we need the wiki structure worked out too. It surely is a good idea. I hope someone good with wiki editing may help. I shall try my best too. Just lets freeze the structure first.
Lastly, its true we need a one point contact (the aristocracy Ryan talked bout) to get ourselves organized. That shall be sponsors I guess or guys with prior experience in managing events/spreading the word.
One more thing, due to geographical differences, its almost impossible for me to be on freenode so we need to find a way out for that. I prefer the mailing list in digest mode. ==
Suchakra == http://suchakra.wordpress.com ==
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:00:12 -0700 From: Ryan Rix ry@n.rix.si Subject: Kickstarting the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program To: campus-ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: 201003261400.17544.ry@n.rix.si Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hello one and all,
For about two months now, there has been a pickup in interest in Fedora's campus ambassadors program. I think that it is about time for us to start picking up efforts for the program. I'm going to go ahead and try to kickstart a bit of discussion about exactly WHO we are, WHAT we want to do, and HOW we will do it. Anyone feel free to jump in, as this is a discussion I'd like all current and prospective campus ambassadors to take part in.
With that out of the way, I have a few questions to ask, and my answers for them. nt, I'm going to go ahead and try
- What do you want to see in the campus ambassador program? What is our
primary goal? 2) How (or should we?) differentiate from the main Fedora Ambassadors program? 3) How should we interract with the Fedora Ambassadors program? 4) What are our next steps?
Thanks and best, Ryan Rix -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ ==
Hiya Suchakra, comments inline
On Sat 27 March 2010 6:08:02 am Suchakra wrote:
Hi All, I've already given my intro but still you may visit my fedora wiki userpage for more info User:Suchakra. I'm in India btw. == 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.
Definitely; would it be beneficial (or possible) to get employees from Red Hat, Pune to come to your school and give talks at the Uni LUG meetings?
I'm doing my share but just a class of 25 prospective students every 1.5 months is hardly what I want. Also, lots of stuff is needed for such events (stickers, badges, pens etc) and it becomes absolutely difficult even if i plan to procure them myself. I can give talks and presentations but to leave a Fedora print in someone's mind we do need the stuff. On a tight budget, surely, its difficult but I hope, Ambassador's program will be willing to help. I'l make my first try at having a little event organized and see the outcome.
Oh and yes, we need the wiki structure worked out too. It surely is a good idea. I hope someone good with wiki editing may help. I shall try my best too. Just lets freeze the structure first.
Lastly, its true we need a one point contact (the aristocracy Ryan talked bout) to get ourselves organized. That shall be sponsors I guess or guys with prior experience in managing events/spreading the word.
Yeah; I'd love to have a few Ambassadors involved in our process :) (Hi, larry!)
One more thing, due to geographical differences, its almost impossible for me to be on freenode so we need to find a way out for that. I prefer the mailing list in digest mode.
:) you know how to get a hold of me, and the list :)
Ryan
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.
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