[Fedora-ambassadors-list] suggestions for an ambassador newbie.

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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Hi Michael,

Michael J Knox wrote:

> I live in New Zealand, in a town called Hamilton (or the Waikato). In
> general, New Zealand has very few trade shows or events that one would
> normally have a stall at etc. 

There has to be something odd about today I seem to be bumping into same
things more than once.

Just now got off the phone with a dear friend of mine who has moved from
a bigger city (Kolkata, India) to a smaller suburb. Small place -
idyllic he says but not much in terms of shows and fests. To take his
story forward - it is an University town with a large public library
which is surprisingly up-to-date and has IT infra. His puzzle was what
to do since the LUG (which is sparsely populated) is Slackware
dominated. Got me thinking and here's a list of stuff that came off the
top of head:

o Wait for FC5 release to make a splash talk and perhaps a small install
fest

o Look around for new users (don't badger the Slackware ones and get
into a my-distro-shiniest thread)

o Put a few FC CDs/DVDs in the public library (here the governing bodies
allow that)

o See if a Linux for Students BoF can be arranged at the institutions
and subtly pitch Fedora

o See if you can base out of your town and perhaps target nearby areas
where once in 3 months you might have a Fedora day.

o Keep up the Fedora traffic on the LUG mailing list

o Perhaps see if you can write for a local popular Linux magazine and
get them to do a roadshow

Regards
Sankarshan

- --

You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw

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