[Ambassadors] Idea: Fedora to Schools

[Antonio Trande]

On 12/18/2013 10:37 PM, Gabriele Trombini (mailga) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wondered a lot about your idea, even since I became ambassador 
> (this was one of the reasons why I joined this group).
> 
> So when we talked about this proposal at the FAD, my reasoning 
> started again.
> 
> In data mercoledì 18 dicembre 2013 18:42:04, Jiri Eischmann ha 
> scritto:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> What is this idea not about:
>> It's not about reviving Fedora Education Spin and Education SIG. The
>> goal is not about creating a special version of Fedora for schools. It
>> should be rather about teaching them how to use the stock Fedora 
> (or the
>> Fedora.Next products in the future) for their school tasks.
>>
>> Because I know projects with big goals die even before they start, I'd
>> like to break it down into several levels we can achieve:
>>
>> 1. creating a list of ambassadors that work/study or just close to
>> universities (I would start with just universities because high or even
>> basic schools are a large target, however I wouldn't explicitly exclude
>> them) and are willing to help students and teachers to start with
>> Fedora, help deploy it. Some kind of campus ambassadors. People 
> then can
>> easily look up if there is any representative of Fedora Project at their
>> university who can help them.
> [snip]
> 
> The problem, here in Italy (I can talk only for my country), is that 
> teachers and the educational governments of the Universites are a 
> sort of élite, almost unapproachable without a real marketing 
> operation. In other words, we should have a recognized structure who 
> could approach the teachers at the highest levels.
> Leaving this approach to a group of brave ambassadors would not 
> lead to anything.

Gabriele's viewpoint about Italian Universities is an established fact.
Maybe we can contact who is already organized to promote Gnu/Linux
inside the campuses.

> In the basic school probably could be easier but it's very dispersive 
> because many students have studying years ahead.
> 


That's the start point in my opinion.
I'll try to contact some junior/senior high school principals and will
let you know.

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