Self introduction

[Athos Ribeiro]

Hello,

My name is Athos Coimbra Ribeiro. I am a computer science MSc student at
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

I am a packager and LATAM ambassador @ Fedora.

My interest in this group would be towards getting Fedora Project closer
to academic research: we have a lot of students and professors using and
collaborating to Fedora Project, it would be nice to identify them and
get to know what are their research interests, etc.

[Justin W. Flory]

On 09/27/2016 07:10 PM, Athos Coimbra Ribeiro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Athos Coimbra Ribeiro. I am a computer science MSc student at
> Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
>
> I am a packager and LATAM ambassador @ Fedora.
>
> My interest in this group would be towards getting Fedora Project closer
> to academic research: we have a lot of students and professors using and
> collaborating to Fedora Project, it would be nice to identify them and
> get to know what are their research interests, etc.

Hi Athos! Another familiar name. :) Welcome!

Like I said in Alexandre's email, the Campus Ambassadors program is 
(unfortunately) a little bit stagnant. There was some planned work to 
develop the program further over the summer, but they weren't able to 
happen due to a series of complications.

For now, we're slowly collecting a list of students, faculty, and staff 
at universities at this wiki page (which you are encouraged to add 
yourself to!):

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/University_Involvement_Initiative#...

I think academic research is one of the best ways to reach out to 
universities, which would also impact both faculty and students. In 
terms of faculty, I think there's some other Ambassadors across the 
world stationed as faculty and staff at universities, so we could also 
try to incorporate them into any future plans for this program.

Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself here. Hope we can help 
drive this effort further in coming months. :)