[Fedora-ambassadors-list] About the openness of this list...

Tejas Dinkar tejasdinkar at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 12:56:35 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:39 +0000, Jon Fautley wrote:
> > I cannot make it to big events. Why should I have to?
> 
> You shouldn't have to. If you can't make it, you can't make it. Simple 
> as that. I don't think we should be forcing ambassadors down a specific 
> path. Some people just simply don't like attending Open Source events, 
> but they can still contribute to the project in other ways.

+1 +1 +1

> > It's about telling people who ask about Fedora, about answering their questions, it's about saying why they should (if at all) switch to Fedora from another distro.
> 
> +1 to that.

Or, in few cases, why they SHOULDN'T switch to fedora.

> The best way to get to the real techies is to attend LUG meetings, or 
> specifically 'geeky' open source events.

well, the local lug guys already use Linux, and they have heard about
fedora, so we need not think about them too much either.

but I'd say target the students... talk in colleges. Teach students the
principles of free software.

gja




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