The Education Strategy
William Cattey
wdc at MIT.EDU
Wed Aug 20 17:50:55 UTC 2008
Jack,
Your scope and rationale make 100% good sense to me.
I see the Campus Reps and RHH initiatives as places were MIT and
Fedora can more fully engage.
Well done!
-Bill
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William Cattey
Linux Platform Coordinator
MIT Information Services & Technology
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On Aug 19, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I realize that some people have been confused, perplexed and
> perhaps annoyed at the lack of information being disseminated about
> what is going on vis-a-vis some programs being planned in the
> educational realm. After my brief comments at the NA ambassadors
> meeting a few weeks I would like to outline what has been going on
> to provide some clarity as well a grounds for discussions for
> everything. Let me start by saying that I apologize if it seemed
> like this was being done in secret, which it absolutely isn't, its
> just the choice was made to keep everything quiet until we could
> make some formal announcement in the coming months and that lead
> people to believe we were trying to cut people out of the process,
> which is not the case at all.
>
> First of all, let me make a few thing we are *NOT* trying to do
> clear, based mostly off concerns people have brought to my attention:
>
> 1. Create a private initiative - Again, we were just being mum
> until we could make sure we would get the most press punch out of
> this.
>
> 2. Uproot/Replace/Rename/Repurpose the Ambassadors program - This
> is absolutely not true one iota!!! The purpose that we are
> considering this initiative to be a separate entity has nothing to
> do with anything malicious. This is intended to be a pilot program
> and we thought it might be less of a burned on Ambassadors if it
> was run by one person initially, figure out if it has legs, gain
> some organic growth and then integrate it into the fold rather than
> stick in a whole bunch of new people with seemingly narrow-focused
> objectives into an already ongoing and vibrant Ambassadors program.
>
> 3. Replace current Ambassadors who are students - Again, not true.
> We really would like everyone to keep doing the great job they are
> already doing, day in and day out. We didn't start by approaching
> these ambassadors, because strategic partnerships with certain key
> universities are important to Red Hat as well as Fedora and we are,
> and I especially have been, working on building those bridges for
> the past few weeks. We don't want to kick anyone out of place, on
> the contrary--we are trying to make more places in which people can
> be.
>
> That being said, I am going to highlight some key pieces of
> strategy which for better or worse comprise our Fedora Education
> Strategy and feel free to comment on and/or disagree with any of
> these--thats why I'm putting this out, to get everyone involved in
> the process:
>
> 1. Open Source Curriculum - We are working with a talented group of
> people to try and put together both a platform and set of course
> materials in order to teach people and students world wide how to
> program using modern software engineering methodologies and with a
> focus on Free and Open Software tools and philosophy.
>
> 2. Campus Reps - A US Pilot program to try and get students on
> college campuses involved in Fedora and general FOSS advocacy.
> Initially, they will all report back to one person within Red Hat
> who can be help responsible and accountable for all this. Purpose
> is two-fold, first, students advocate for open source and fedora on
> their respective campus. Second, they provide eyes and ears on the
> ground and work with students and faculty to find interesting
> opportunities. Students also provide a face for us to the faculty
> which is familiar to them which doesnt seem like its some corporate
> backed scheme to recruit students without paying their sometimes
> insane fees. Reps have a few basic responsibilities, mainly
> holding one event a semester, whether it be a tech talk or info
> session about something fedora or open source related and
> maintaining good rapport with faculty to try and make new
> opportunities spring up.
>
> 3. Red Hat High 2.0 - Redefine RHH as a program working with the
> country's elite science and math high schools in order to get
> students familiarized with open source at the high school level.
> This ties in with the Open Curriculum. We know there are a number
> of similar initiatives but none which focus around getting students
> familiarized with open source.
>
> Thats basically that, I'm sure everyone will have more questions
> and comments and suggestions, so let's get everyone involved in
> this. What do you think?
>
> Jack
>
>
>
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