[Campus Ambassadors] Proposed wiki rewrite

[Justin W. Flory]

Hi Amit,

On 03/30/2016 03:21 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On (Mon) 15 Feb 2016 [14:00:13], Justin W. Flory wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Recently, in FAmNA, we have been discussing a proposed way to revitalize
> > the Campus Ambassadors program.
> >  https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/123
> >
> > To help finalize the process, I have put together a new draft of the Campus
> > Ambassadors wiki page. It would be great to have others' ideas, thoughts,
> > and feedback about the rewrite.
>
> This activity is promising to get new contributors and users, so good
> job on getting it going.
>
> A suggestion I have is we look at a few courses universities offer,
> and what software they recommend for their labs or otherwise.  We
> could have a table suggesting FOSS equivalents of popular proprietary
> software that gets used at universities.

Agreed – and in terms of curriculum, there's a few schools across the 
world that have open source as part of their curriculum. The Rochester 
Institute of Technology in New York has a minor in FOSS, which is 
something that can be used as a reference too.
> Also, if we have experts (or even users) of such software
> (e.g. gnuplot), we should invite such experts to write Magazine posts
> about using such software, and also perhaps include a cheatsheet that
> maps workflows from the prorietary sw to the FOSS sw.  This can serve
> two purposes: have the Magazine publicise free software (on Fedora),
> and also link these articles to the table on the wiki page with the
> FOSS sw counterparts.
>
> With this info, when the campus ambassadors go to the univs, they can
> readily suggest software available, and when the campus labs get
> going, students know how to play around with the new(?) environment.

This is all fantastic feedback! To help centralize this discussion down 
and prevent mailing list cross-posting, I've created a ticket for this 
in the CommOps Trac. You're welcome to CC yourself and/or add some of 
your own thoughts and ideas to the ticket!

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/68

Thanks!

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
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