[fedora-my] Re: Calling for .MY students to the Fedora Campus Ambassador program

[Izhar Firdaus]

oh ah .. find me in #fedora-my irc.freenode.net ( nick KageSenshi ) or
ask at fedora-my-list [
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-my-list ] if interested
.. tq

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Izhar Firdaus <kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, this havent kickstart globally yet (and still a draft), anyway , I
> want to see how many people in .MY interested .. if many, we can
> kickstart it early in .MY .. so , here goes.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors
>
> == What is the Campus Ambassadors program? ==
>
> * To build up individual Fedora communities on campuses, and provide
> resources for students to organize events and contribute their code
> and ideas to Fedora.
> * To help students network with other open source and Fedora
> contributors, and lay the groundwork for potential summer internships
> * To create a fun and exciting network of passionate, dedicated people
> to spearhead Fedora's presence on college campuses
> * To work with faculty and students both to promote free and open
> source software on campus
>
> == What do Campus Ambassadors get? ==
>
> The Fedora Campus Ambassadors program receive many benefits, amongst
> the following:
>
> * Learn and Increase your knowledge about Fedora, Linux and Open Source
> * Become a member of the foremost Open Source community
> * Create a name for yourself and network with a world class team of
> people who put together and run the most cutting edge Distro and
> community out there
> * Have your blog aggregated on the Fedora Planet blog site
> * A great opportunity to learn and develop communication skills
> * Lots of experience doing community driven marketing
> * Stipends for running an event (pizza, soda, etc.)
> * Schwag to give out at events and a cool exclusive Campus
> Ambassadors, t-shirt
> * Earn a trip to FUDCon!!!
>
> == What is required of Campus Ambassadors? ==
>
> * One tech talk per semester highlighting Fedora and/or Fedora-related
> technologies
> * Let us know an event is taking place by posting to the wiki and the
> mailing list
> * An event report and blog post as a followup
> * Work with faculty and staff to find new ways and opportunities for
> Fedora on your campus
> * Be a self-starter and identify other ways in which we can help YOU!
> * Attend periodic irc meetings to help coordinate efforts
> * Collaborate and coordinate with other Fedora presence on/near your campus
>
> == How do I become a Campus Ambassador? ==
>
> * Sign up for a Fedora account at
> [http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora here], click the "set up an
> account link"
> * Join and introduce yourself the mailing list [http://linkhere
> campus-ambassadors at list.fedoraproject.org] - not active yet
> * Join the IRC Channels #fedora-campusamb and #fedora-ambassadors at
> [irc://irc.freenode.net irc.freenode.net]
> * Get going!!
>
>
> --
> Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail
> Amano Hikaru  天野晃 「あまの ひかる」
> Fedora Malaysia Contributor & Ambassador
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MohdIzharFirdaus
> http://blog.kagesenshi.org
> 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866  5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331
>



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Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail
Amano Hikaru  天野晃 「あまの ひかる」
Fedora Malaysia Contributor & Ambassador
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MohdIzharFirdaus
http://blog.kagesenshi.org
92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866  5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331