Kickstarting CampusAmb
by Suchakra
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.
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Suchakra
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> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:00:12 -0700
> From: Ryan Rix <ry(a)n.rix.si>
> Subject: Kickstarting the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program
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> 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
> 1) 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/ ==
>
13 years, 8 months
Kickstarting the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program
by Ryan Rix
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
1) 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/ ==
13 years, 8 months
Re: Kickstarting the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program
by Colin Zwiebel
Ryan,
Sounds cool!
Sorry, just joined the list and am probably jump some discussion. Don't
worry about filling in too much.
I admit, I need to do some reading on the ambassadors program, but thought I
would add
1) I would really like to see Olin students working on more OSS / Fedora
projects
2) I can list some issues I've run into in the past getting students to work
on said projects (may give perspective)
=== Background ===
Maybe a few words about me / Olin. First off, I'm an electrical and computer
engineering (ECE) major here at F. W. Olin College <http://olin.edu> (yeah,
that crazy 300 person college science experiment). Olin college doesn't have
a mainstream CS / Computer Engineering (CE) major, but many students use OSS
and most students do at least intermediary software.
Of our CS/CE/ECE majors, a large portion are hired for Product Management
and other, not-direct-code-monkey positions. Otherwise, Olin students to be
more system-level-thinkers (aka, holistic thinkers) then I find other tech
schools to be.
Olin College is somewhat of an odd environment. Some of my concerns are
shaped by Olin's ranking at #4 of the Princeton Review's list of colleges
where "students study the most"
=== Issues and Context ===
Time == huge issue. Last year I ran http://gurufest.org/ GuruFest. It was
very difficult to get only a handful of students--and we we're running
around with colorful XO laptops! A Fedora / OSS movement at Olin would need
to be very approachable and then develop into something meaningful (or at
least addictive).
Physical Immediacy, (IE, lots of projects... but within Olin). Alternatively
known as "casualty to convenience"
Another trend I've noticed is that students here tend to
== Areas of Opportunity ==
Hackathons == awesome.
We've had several, about 10 (3% of Olin you guys! :P ) usually stay the
weekend. Might be a good way to get people hooked. If not, we could choose
projects that are easy to jump into or do bug fixing?
=== Grand Challenges Scholar Program ===
Olin is starting our first "degree-with-merit" program. Students that
formulate an action plan and show significant contribution to one the
National Academy of Engineering's 14 "Grand
Challenges<http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/>."
can receive a special distinction on their diploma.
Some of these areas have real OSS potential. Personalized learning comes to
mind. Getting someone onboard with an OSS project for their
Grand Challenges Scholar action plan would be awesome.
=== Course Projects, a way to contribute? ===
I have always thought that getting students to work on OSS projects would be
a way to kill two birds with one stone. Surprisingly, I find that students
don't. Last year I tried to push people to do their Software Design projects
on something OLPC / XO related. They *had *to Python, after all! No bites.
There is a drawback in that student projects may result in small, badly
organized, and partially complete projects that then wither. But hey, there
are cases where someone falls in love with OSS or their project and it all
makes up for it.
An alternative is to tap thesis and capstones. Olin has an advantage here in
that we have a Design Thread that runs through our cirriculum. Doing a
CS-type capstone that emphasizes users or interface design or worldly impact
(instead of pure technical work) is smiled upon.
== Disclaimer ==
I'm trying to run a run a Drag Show and a few other things right now. So I'm
strapped for time. I think it would be good to start the discussion now
about college programs so that we can launch (F13 :P ) come academic year
2010-11!
Okay, enough thoughts from this poor mind for one night.
Cheers
Colin
http://zonion.org
2010/3/27 Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com>
> You might be interested in Campus Ambassadors. Ryan == supercool guy.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Kickstarting the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:00:12 -0700
> From: Ryan Rix <ry(a)n.rix.si>
> Organization: The Fedora Project
> To: campus-ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>
> 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
> 1) 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/ ==
>
>
13 years, 8 months
Thanks..
by Suchakra
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for sponsoring. So now, are there some presentations available
on fedora to spread the word among my students, or do i need to make
them on my own? I think we need to generate some resources viz
wallspapers, presentations, tutorials to spread the fedora word in
campus. Also, will I be able to use suchakra(a)fedoraproject.org alias?
Suchakra
13 years, 9 months
Guidance Please
by Jay Nahata
Hello Everyone
I am a new member. Kindly guide me through as in what to do around here.
thanking You
Jay Nahata
13 years, 9 months
Hi all...
by Suchakra
Hi,
I wish to join fedora campus ambassadors group and need a mentor for
that matter. I wish to get some help too regarding certain procedures
to organize events in my College. Please visit my
wiki : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Suchakra
Looking forward to a positive response. Thanks!
13 years, 9 months
New Member
by siddharth srivastava
Hello Everyone
I am a new member. Kindly guide me through
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Siddharth Srivastava
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13 years, 9 months
