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[Thomas Chung]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:45:19  0100, Hornain Frederic wrote
> Dear *,
> 
> Well, I have started my pilgrim mission. Gosh, it was not so obvious!
> 
> Indeed, last saturday I went to a french engineering school where I talked to 
> the principal about fedora and the fact to do in a first time a fedora project 
> presentation to students.
> 
> He was very enthousiast to do it and told me that teachers could also be 
> really interested.
> 
> During our conversation, he gave me his visit card and I was a little bit 
> embarassed to give him mine cause I haven't got any fedora project vist card 
> on me. - Could the fedora project provide us visit cards or could we print one 
> based on a standard available on the fedora project web site ?  -
> 
> So he asked me where I can be reach at the fedora project. Then I had to give 
> him the email address coming from my company. He was a little bit confused 
> cause he did not understood why I gave him an e-mail address having no 
> relationship with the subject of our conversation. Ok, I can admit that this 
> kind of situation permit to explain deeper the base of Open source and how the 
> community works.
> 
> However, it was not so obvious to be convincing when you are in face of 
> peolple who they know nothing about open source. So, little details can be 
> really helpful.
> 
> Well, we talked more than hour.
> 
> In addition, he asked me some questions which I had some difficulties to 
> answer. For instance :
> 
> - how is structured the fedora project organization - in term of 
> organizational tree - ?
> 
> - Does it exist a program of partnership between schools and fedora?
> 
> - Can they use the reference "fedora project" in there school's presentation 
> brochure if they are interacting with the fedora community ?
> 
> - and so on and so for ...
> 
> Anyway, we have planned to do a presentation of fedora -overview- to students 
> as soon as I would have done my presentation slides and an offcial have 
> commited them.
> 
> Thank you in advance if you can give the answers to the previous question.
> 
> BTW, if you have any remarks, feel free to contact me.
> 
> Best Regards
> Fred

Thank you for sharing your story with us.

I feel the pain for you.

As you know, we are still in transition period as far as new official logo guideline
concern.

Please be patience a little longer as Greg is working on with his counsel.

I would suggest to make a list of questions you could not answer and discuss them during
our next scheduled meeting.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings

Regards,
--
Thomas Chung
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