Re: Kickstarting the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program

[Larry Cafiero]

Hey, all --

First, Ryan: Thanks for kickstarting this.

When the Campus Ambassador program was first initiated, I was a student at
Cabrillo College. However, I am no longer a student but I would like to
contribute anyway. My responses to the questions are integrated below.

1) What do you want to see in the campus ambassador program? What is our
>  primary goal?
>  
The primary goal for the Campus Ambassador program should be to promote
Fedora on high school and college campuses, where Campus Ambassadors serve
as spokespersons and representatives of Fedora. What makes the Campus
Ambassador program unique is that students at a particular school take the
reins in promoting Fedora at their own schools, rather than having an
Ambassador come from off-campus to do the promotional work.

2) How (or should we?) differentiate from the main Fedora Ambassadors
>  program?
>  
There should be no difference, and the Campus Ambassadors and Fedora
Ambassadors should work in unison. In my opinion, Campus Ambassadors should
be Fedora Ambassadors who also happen to be high school/college students
representing Fedora at their school. So Campus Ambassadors should go through
the same vetting and mentoring that a regular Fedora Ambassador goes
through, and s/he becomes a Fedora Ambassador with the same rights,
privileges and responsibilities as a non-campus Ambassador.


3) How should we interract with the Fedora Ambassadors program?
>  
See above.


> 4) What are our next steps?
>  
I think there is a lot of nuts-and-bolts stuff to get done; things like
organizational framework, and that sort of thing. There's probably too much
around that to go into here, but the situations will arise where this will
have to be addressed, and we all can address it accordingly

Despite the fact that I am no longer a student, I do talk about FOSS and
Fedora on campuses frequently and I would like to help out wherever
possible.

Larry Cafiero