Study Abroad with a Fedora twist

[Mel Chua]

Just had a thought - something Ambassadors typically *can't* do, but 
campus ambassadors may be able to do far more easily.

Ambassador Exchange Programmes.

One thing I've seen come up time and time again is the communication gap 
between different language/geo subcommunities in Fedora - most people 
from EMEA can't read the Spanish-language LATAM lists, people in LATAM 
don't know what's happening in APAC because they can't understand IRC 
channels in Chinese, folks from APAC can't afford to fly to NA events, 
and so on...

Some folks already try to bridge these various subcommunities, which is 
fantastic. We need more! It would be great if we could do a 
cultural/linguistic exchange between geographies to grow the number of 
people who have relationships that straddle both sides.

The trouble is that it's it's tough for an Ambassador with a job and a 
family to uproot him/herself to go volunteer on the other side of the 
world for 6 months. It's a lot easier for a student to do it; in fact, 
there are tons of credit-granting programs for it that are actively 
encouraged by our schools. It's called Study Abroad.

What if we used this as an opportunity to expand not just our own 
cultural/linguistic horizons, but that of the local Fedora community we 
come from, and the one we're going to? I'm not sure what this means or 
where it could go, and haven't thought this through that much - but 
wanted to toss it out there for feedback/thoughts/criticism.

Also, what *other* resources do students have access to that most 
Ambassadors do not? Access to facilities is the only other thing that 
comes to mind right now.

Just braindumping. :)

--Mel