RFC : Re-structuring Campus-Am team

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

while i agree that we need more contributions from students, and agree
that theres a need for a lower barrier of entry group for ambassador,
I'm not sure about separation of campus and normal ambassadors.

In my country at least, the students are the ones who tend to have
more visible activities, compared to the full-fledged ambassadors, as
the normal ambassadors tend to have limited movement either limited
due to $dayjob or family.

Most of my events are actually done by these students too, while i'm
just facilitating in term of guidance and giving talks in the events.
There are some of them which I feel already deserve to be normal
ambassador, rather than just campus ambassadors.

how about the change campus ambassador program to be a
less-student-specific ambassador apprenticeship program, with a more
flexible mentorship system?. ie:

1 - anybody can apply for apprenticeship, regardless whether they are
student or not.
2 - they have to contact any nearby, active local ambassadors (if
available, else contact regional ambassador), for apprenticeship.
3 - once the person found an ambassador who is willing to mentor him,
the person will need to run one or several events, under guidance of
that ambassador.
4 - the ambassador responsibility is to guide the apprentice on how to
run fedora events, and also help out with getting famsco funds or
swags, if needed.
5 - once the ambassador feel that the apprentice is ready to be a full
fledged ambassador, forward the apprentice to a ambassador group
mentor
6 - from this step on, follow our usual ambassador acceptance flow.

my 2cents ..

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Buddhike Kurera
<bckurera at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:10 AM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Buddhike Kurera
>>> Campus FAm is an inactive group at the moment[4]. So why dont we
>>> re-structure it and give some life to it. If campus Am is not the right place,
>>> we can have a separate team. The idea behind is the important, i believe.
>>
>> I think the focus being on involving students is the better, more
>> productive focus. But we come back to the problem it always had which
>> is getting students involved. I really support the idea here, so I'm
>> all for trying something new to make it work. I do think the
>> fundamental problem is reaching the students to get them involved.
>>
> I had a IRC chat with Biertie some days back and he is willing to support
> for a change. If we change the scope as we can get the students support,
> I think we can get their involvement, but first we need to have a place to
> invite them. Therefore we need to change the way the Campus Am team
> organized.
>
> So the problem is, how Campus Am. team should be changed to get more
> students' involvement?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)
> Fedora Ambassador - APAC region
> Event Liaison - Design Team
>
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