12:32 p.m.
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 08:45 -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote:
On 03/03/2016 08:44 AM, Ardian Haxha wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've sent some emails with my university, they have invited me for
> a
> meeting to see what we can do. The wiki that Justin is working
> looks
> solid for beginning the activity, but having something in final
> would be
> great. I suggest we get in touch ASAP with marketing and design
> team and
> start having fliers and banners/logos with the sign of Campus
> Ambassador.
Hey Ardian!
Took me a lot longer to cycle back on this email than I wanted, but
this
is a discussion we should definitely have.
What were your ideas and thoughts on putting together something
"final"
to represent the Campus Ambassadors? I am definitely a fan of
creating
some fliers or other easily distributable info sheet on the program
to
help encourage students at universities to get involved.
As far as internal structure / hierarchy goes, what were your
thoughts
on my wiki page draft? Were there any details that seemed
questionable
to you or maybe could be reworded? I'm still meaning to edit it and
make
the revision that event reports can go on the Community Blog *OR*
personal blogs, as a benefit for personal branding for an Ambassador
(this was discussed in a FAmNA meeting two weeks ago).
For anyone who isn't sure where this draft is, see here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jflory7/Scratchpad/Campus_Ambassa
dors
Other opinions and thoughts are surely welcome on this! Feel free to
chime in if you have ideas or thoughts.
I think that one thing that may be useful to set as part of the goals
to try to inspire teachers and staff on campus to become part of
ambassadors and campus ambassadors.
The rationale to include this is that a student may spend from 3 to 5
years in the university depending on the studying program, but a
teacher or staff may stay at the university longer.
If the student didn't inspire other students about fedora, fedora's
presence will end when the student graduates. Besides a teacher or
staff may have greater audience than a student.
It may happen that the teacher or staff may be tempted to use fedora
resources to make their classes or labs more appealing, this may be a
gray area. Like: "I will teach an extra class with free pizza which
will be using fedora". I will trust that most of us are for the
freedom.
In other hand it may be difficult for some countries this level of
sponsoring. Most of the reimbursement process is made by paypal. In
some countries you can not get funds by paypal. Some of the countries
that you can get the funds you can only used as a electronic wallet and
you can not cash that money. For some people electronic money is
useful, but not for all. So we have to be careful to not create
unrealistic expectations regarding sponsoring.
Just my two cents on this topic.
Neville