[Ambassadors] Campus Ambassadors -- Where we are and where we want to be (the Ambassadors List version)

[threethirty]

On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 21:01 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> Hello one and all!
> 
> The work to reenergize the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program continues! I 
> just wanted to let the list know of a few things, and ask a few 
> questions..
> 
> I just mailbombed about twenty people listed on the CampusAmb page[1] who 
> are listed, but are not a member of Fedora's ambassadors group, asking 
> them to apply for ambassadorship if they are interested in joining the 
> program. The rationale for this is explained at [2]. tl;dr: Campus 
> Ambassadors are regular ambassadors who represent themselves at schools 
> rather than the entire community. As such, anyone who's actually 
> interested in joining Campus Ambassadors is about to go find a mentor... 
> Just giving our loving mentors a heads up :)
> 
> Which takes me to my next thing... I considered bringing this straight to 
> FAMSCo, but maybe bringing it to the main list would be a good way to come 
> up with possible a better solution. I'd like to propose having a few new 
> mentors added to the current list of Fedora Ambassadors Mentors. Yes, yes, 
> I know, crazy. These mentors would not be allowed to mentor anyone 
> _except_ campus ambassadors and/or they would be the only ones allowed to 
> mentor campus ambassadors, so that they get proper vetting and training as 
> to how they can affect campuses, since they are decidedly different places 
> that the Real World. What are everyone's thoughts on this? How would we 
> make this happen?
> 
> [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors
> [2]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/campus-ambassadors/2010-
> April/000070.html

+1 to all of it. Schools are in no way the real world [a beginning html
book doesn't cost $100USD anywhere I can think of :)]