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

puneet batura puneet_batura at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Mar 13 14:15:41 UTC 2006


On 3/13/06, Tejas Dinkar <tejasdinkar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Yes, i think targeting the students and colleges is a must  +1. Its really
necessary to tell the students in the colleges abt  open source, so that
they can look at this alternative in their earlier stages of carrier and
drive them to contribute and use FOSS.

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