Looks like, I have missed the conversation. Sorry for late reply. Add me in there too.<br>I am from Bangladesh. Student of National University. I am also a Fedora Ambassador and I am working as the President of ¨Dhaka City College Linux User Group¨. Also I am working with Bangladesh Linux User Alliance.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Larry Cafiero <<a href="mailto:larry.cafiero@gmail.com">larry.cafiero@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What I would expect from such a program is, essentially, support for<br>
our evangelism as promote Fedora on campus. Swag is always nice -- it<br>
may not appeal so much to me, a 50-year-old freshman, as it does to<br>
</div>younger students -- and general promotional support in the form of<br>
providing software and other instructional materials to introduce<br>
students to Fedora, if they exist (and, to say the least, we can draw<br>
from our own experiences in promoting Fedora on campus).<br>
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Sorry<br>
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On 6/28/08, Larry Cafiero <<a href="mailto:larry.cafiero@gmail.com">larry.cafiero@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Jack --<br>
><br>
> I think the idea of getting a foothold into colleges is a good one.<br>
> I'm not entirely clear how advocating for Fedora in the school setting<br>
> differs from what we would normally do as ambassadors, but I'm willing<br>
> to be educated. :-)<br>
><br>
> What I would expect from such a program is, essentially, support for<br>
> our evangelism as promote Fedora on campus. Swag is always nice -- it<br>
> may not appeal so much to me, a 50-year-old freshman, as it does to<br>
> younger students -- and<br>
><br>
> But bright ideas? Hmmm. I'm open to new ideas, but I can tell you what<br>
> we're doing so far at Cabrillo College.<br>
><br>
> The Cabrillo College GNU/Linux Users Group holds biweekly installfests<br>
> during the school semesters (monthly during the summer). During new<br>
> releases -- like the Fedora 9 release -- the installfests take on a<br>
> "theme," and in the Fedora 9 instance it was "Hats Off to Fedora 9"<br>
> back in May.<br>
><br>
> Generally speaking, there is always a Fedora presence at meetings and<br>
> installfests (by me, for one, but we've also had another local<br>
> ambassador, Karsten Wade, attend as well). There's no reason why we<br>
> couldn't ramp that up to have info sessions and/or tech talk types of<br>
> events on campus during the course of the school year.<br>
><br>
> One of the things we're doing at Cabrillo College is creating our own<br>
> distro, called Seahawk GNU/Linux (the Seahawk is the Cabrillo mascot).<br>
> Not that the world needs yet another distro, mind you, but we're using<br>
> the project as a teaching tool more than an actual distro that will<br>
> take the world by storm. Of course, it's based on Fedora.<br>
><br>
> How that translates into promotional value for Fedora is that those of<br>
> us working on the project -- students in the Computer and Information<br>
> Systems department primarily -- work specifically with Fedora and, as<br>
> a result, gain a familiarity to it. Also, as Fedora is connected to<br>
> the distro, those who get introduced to GNU/Linux through the<br>
> school-based distro get a sort of introduction to Fedora as well (and,<br>
> naturally, they might be inclined -- or urged -- to use Fedora).<br>
><br>
> For those who have stayed awake up to this point, thanks for reading.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Larry Cafiero<br>
> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 6/28/08, Jack Aboutboul <<a href="mailto:jaa@redhat.com">jaa@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hey All,<br>
> ><br>
> > I appreciate all the enthusiasm, I know you guys are eager to join, but I<br>
> > was more curious in what you guys felt about the actual idea and what you<br>
> > would expect out of such a program? I want it to be different than the<br>
> > current ambassadors setup.<br>
> ><br>
> > I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > Jack<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Jack Aboutboul wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Hey All,<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told<br>
> > > that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora<br>
> > > and Fedora marketing efforts. I have been working for the past couple<br>
> > > of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I<br>
> > > tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". The mission of the campus<br>
> > > ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox<br>
> > > Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body<br>
> > > about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info<br>
> > > session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is<br>
> > > constant action and interest in Fedora.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > There will be a community architecture team meeting in Raleigh next week<br>
> > > at which I would like to present the final plan for this and officially<br>
> > > launch. I have already been in contact with a number of students from<br>
> > > various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so<br>
> > > far there is interest.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Just thought I would kick the idea out to the list and see what people<br>
> > > had to say. My plan is to put up a wiki page for this tomorrow or over<br>
> > > the weekend, so that it can be presented next week.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Thanks,<br>
> > > Jack<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> ><br>
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