[Fwd: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)]
by sankarshan
On a hunch that a few fine folks would have missed this :)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:24:03 -0400
From: Jack Aboutboul <jaa(a)redhat.com>
Reply-To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora
user base <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
<fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
Hey All,
I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told
that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora
and Fedora marketing efforts. I have been working for the past couple
of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I
tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". The mission of the campus
ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox
Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body
about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events.
Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info
session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is
constant action and interest in Fedora.
There will be a community architecture team meeting in Raleigh next week
at which I would like to present the final plan for this and officially
launch. I have already been in contact with a number of students from
various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so
far there is interest.
Just thought I would kick the idea out to the list and see what people
had to say. My plan is to put up a wiki page for this tomorrow or over
the weekend, so that it can be presented next week.
Thanks,
Jack
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Re: [Ambassadors] Introduction-New FA
by sankarshan
Welcome.
~sankarshan
rajan vaish wrote:
> I am Rajan Vaish from India.A Computer Science Major currently pursuing
> my B.S (4th year) from Jaypee University of Information
> Technology,Solan,India .I have been programming in C & C++ for last 3
> years and lately started working on Java.Apart from the same I have also
> worked on technologies like .NET(using C#),AJAX some PHP & J2EE.
> I have worked on UNIX and basic Shell Programming .Latter I was
> introduced to Linux world in College's Networking Lab,where on Fedora
> using C programs we were taught to Network(LAN).I have also used Linux
> for Compiler design Labs using LEX and YACC tools .
> Lately by participating at Google Summer of Code,I got an opportunity to
> intern for OLPC ( One Laptop Per Child ) and to develop a Geography
> teaching tool for children using Open Source technologies like
> OpenLayers,MapServer,GeoRSS and QGIS,where I also have to develop
> installer/packages for Windows/Linux (OLPC XO Laptops run on
> Fedora)/Macintosh of the tool created.
> I have not contributed to the Linux community earlier but with my
> existing knowledge and will to learn more and with my coming experiences
> with OLPC ,Fedora is going to last in my life forever and thats the
> platform I will be using for my final year project where I will be
> implementing a Ph.D thesis on a Computer Networking project from
> Stanford University.In the contributers program I saw that one can
> contribute in a number of ways,so I can help the community grow by
> spreading word about the same in my University and bring more value to
> the Fedora group.At times I can contribute to the Web Development and I
> have also worked on Internationalization while working on Google Gadgets
> ( http://www.googlemodules.com/author/Rajan+Vaish/ ) within 10 days of
> their release they have a statistics of more than 150 queries per day.I
> am thankful to be part of Fedora Ambassadors Program and ready to
> contribute in anyway I can.Thanks !!
> Rajan Vaish
> http://linkedin.com/in/rajanvaish
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Re: [Ambassadors] Introduction-New FA
by sankarshan
Prakhar Agarwal wrote:
> I have just joined the Fedora Ambassador Group. I'm Senior Year
> Under-graduate student from India with major IT. I have been using
> fedora from the time I started using Linux, be it university labs or PC.
> I really love Fedora and have been involved in promoting it as a user.
Welcome on board :)
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Re: Possibility of a Mirror at Manipal?
by Ankur Shrivastava
Now you are talking
this is what i was talking about to work together
and Dhananjay and i are talking about LUG so seriously because that is
the very first place where we need to target and under that we can do
a ot of things
also i dont think you know about how LUG was formed, it was really
hard for Lug to be formed in Manipal coz of so much restrictions but
still it was formed in November last year, meet me some time and i
will tell you the whole story and will discuss what all we can do
On 6/22/08, ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> hi,lets put it this way.. lets go back to college and work together on our
> goals.. looking forward to working with you all..
> regards,Ankur
> --- On Sun, 22/6/08, jd hs <pankdh6006(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> From: jd hs <pankdh6006(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Possibility of a Mirror at Manipal?
> To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in, "susmit shannigrahi"
> <thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com>, ankur(a)ankurs.com, fedora-india(a)redhat.com
> Date: Sunday, 22 June, 2008, 1:33 PM
>
> Well you didn't join LUG its your missed opportunity to interact , yes i
> know caps is for SHOUTING and what is this gotta do with the other ankur? As
> for Network Admin: Mr. Satish Kamath ( i had been reffering to your second
> post) . I don't really have any means of contacting him from here.
>
>
> Regards Dhananjay
>
> P.S.-I respect your views and concerns also , it's just that the network
> managment (wifi) has been quite pathetic.
>
>
>
>
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Re: Possibility of a Mirror at Manipal?
by susmit shannigrahi
> The way you people write and behave
> wouldnt encourage anyone to work with you.. so much for your team work
> skills WHICH I HOPE YOU KNOW IS AN IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT FOR AN
> AMBASSADOR
>
> Also i assume youve used the internet long enough to know that CAPITALS
> INDICATE SHOUTING AND SHOULD NOT BE USED..
>
> Well you seem to be asking a lot of questions for someone who's been in
> manipal for a longer period ,if you had been in contact with LUG you would
> be aware of our efforts to make the local lan repo. You should be sharing
> your ideas and resources in trying to help people getting familliar with
> linux , most people dont care for command line usage they just like clicking
> environment of windows ,hence they don't quite go along with the idea. I
> hope you do know that , this is the goal of an ambassador.
>
> As for your questions the network admin (U DIDNT KNO MIT HAD A NETWORK
> ADMIN ?) is not available in holidays ,
> THE OPTIC FIBRE IS FOR COMPLETE MANIPAL (INCLUDING KMC,MCODS,ETC..) Hence
> when established the repo will be for all . Again if you had come to LUG
> meetings you would know that students from sides other than engineering
> contacted us(LUG).
>
> For other technecalities i suggest you wait till we all reach manipal ,
> since ankur srivastava is going much before me he can tell you the
> situation.
Guys, remember that you are sending these mail to an all india-list.
So everyone is watching you. :)
So what outside people will generally comment is that the LUG at manipal
is torn apart by internal conflicts and their prospect to do anything
good is very low.
Will that enhance your reputation ?
Be a bit patient, sort out the differences between yourselves
internally and work together, there is no point quarrelling, there are
so much good works to do!!!
Thanks.
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Regards,
Susmit.
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