[council] #22: Objective Proposal: University Involvement

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#22: Objective Proposal: University Involvement
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 Reporter:  sgallagh  |     Owner:
   Status:  new       |  Priority:  normal
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 I alluded to this during the Council meeting on Monday, so I'm going to
 attempt to turn this into a formal proposal.

 == Objective: University Involvement ==

 === Overview ===
 Increase Fedora's exposure in university environments, particularly
 engineering universities.

 === Expected Impact ===
 Increased user base with a specific focus on future contributors.

 === Timeframe ===
 For maximum effect, if we elect to work towards this Objective, we should
 kick it into gear at the beginning of the summer with the intent of having
 events planned during the 2015-2016 school year.

 === Aspects ===
 * Coordinate marketing, ambassador and outreach groups to focus on
 university needs
 * Work with universities to provide install-fests during student
 orientation periods
 * Work with universities to regularly run Fedora-focused hackfests
 * Work with university IT departments to co-maintain one or more Fedora
 computer labs (and help them upgrade them during breaks)
 * Establish work-study, co-op and for-credit programs at universities

 === Metrics ===
 * Increased contributions from university programs
 * Increased bug reports and feature requests
 * Increased mind-share among potential contributors (not easily measured)

 === Additional Notes ===
 Some prototypes of this have been performed at Brno universities over the
 last few years, with very positive results. We should coordinate with the
 contributors involved in those efforts and learn from their successes and
 failures.

 There is also a University Outreach program run by Red Hat's "Open Source
 and Standards" department which was involved in the RIT partnership from
 which we eventually acquired Remy DeCausemaker. I assume he will have
 plenty to add to this discussion as well as contacts in the university
 world.

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