Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-07-02 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: Given that many of the responders to the thread are already Fedora Ambassadors and ready to help, why do you want a different setup than the current ambassadors? If the current isn't seen as working well - then lets focus on fixing that so both ambassadors working on a

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-07-02 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Jack Aboutboul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main reasons for this working outside of ambassadors is that we are going to have a different governance model around this and the goals will be slightly different I'm looking specifically to put students/faculty

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-07-02 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Jack Aboutboul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main reasons for this working outside of ambassadors is that we are going to have a different governance model around this and the goals will be slightly different I'm looking

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-07-01 Thread William Cattey
My role at MIT is to try and make things easier for all Linux users whatever their skill level and whatever their preferred distribution. In the past MIT had Project Athena which acted as a focal point and framework to get students involved in writing software and getting it out into the

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-30 Thread Aravind Seshadri
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 14:11 +0800, Izhar Firdaus wrote: Count me in too .. I'm a student in PETRONAS University of Technology (Malaysia) .. already an ambassador and also one of the founding members of a FOSS user group in the university, the maintainer of a LAN Fedora mirror there, and also

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-30 Thread Antonio Sebastián Sallés M.
2008/6/27 Jack Aboutboul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey All, Count me in too... I am teacher from Universidad Central, in Chile, and work for Red Hat Chile as Consultant. I'm ambassador from Santiago de Chile and can help u in all. -- Saludos! Antonio Sebastián Sallés M. UCENTUX / IEEE UCENTRAL

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-30 Thread Chris Tyler
Jeff Spaleta wrote: I think there are a lot of people chomping at the bit to get something done. A framework to work inside of would help a lot. But beyond just being a rep... we need some guidance on how to tell students and faculty how to take on Fedora relevant work as academic

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-29 Thread Angel
Looks like, I have missed the conversation. Sorry for late reply. Add me in there too. I am from Bangladesh. Student of National University. I am also a Fedora Ambassador and I am working as the President of ¨Dhaka City College Linux User Group¨. Also I am working with Bangladesh Linux User

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-29 Thread ankur sinha
: Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors) To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com Date: Sunday, 29 June, 2008, 3:39 PM Looks like, I have missed the conversation. Sorry for late reply. Add me

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-29 Thread inode0
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Jack Aboutboul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I appreciate all the enthusiasm, I know you guys are eager to join, but I was more curious in what you guys felt about the actual idea and what you would expect out of such a program? I want it to be different

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Jack Aboutboul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate all the enthusiasm, I know you guys are eager to join, but I was more curious in what you guys felt about the actual idea and what you would expect out of such a program? I think ambassadors targeting

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-28 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hey All, I appreciate all the enthusiasm, I know you guys are eager to join, but I was more curious in what you guys felt about the actual idea and what you would expect out of such a program? I want it to be different than the current ambassadors setup. I know you guys have some bright

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-28 Thread Larry Cafiero
Jack -- I think the idea of getting a foothold into colleges is a good one. I'm not entirely clear how advocating for Fedora in the school setting differs from what we would normally do as ambassadors, but I'm willing to be educated. :-) What I would expect from such a program is, essentially,

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-28 Thread Larry Cafiero
Oops. Second paragraph should read: What I would expect from such a program is, essentially, support for our evangelism as promote Fedora on campus. Swag is always nice -- it may not appeal so much to me, a 50-year-old freshman, as it does to younger students -- and general promotional support

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-27 Thread Tushar Neupaney
I don't know Grady am I eligible. I am from Nepal and also a Fedora Ambassador. I would be happy to help. Tushar On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 23:07 -0700, Grady Laksmono wrote: Add me as well, I'm Grady Laksmono, I'm currently a Fedora Ambassador for Los Angeles, California. I'm a student at

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-27 Thread Matthieu Rondeau
2008/6/27 Tushar Neupaney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know Grady am I eligible. I am from Nepal and also a Fedora Ambassador. I would be happy to help. Tushar On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 23:07 -0700, Grady Laksmono wrote: Add me as well, I'm Grady Laksmono, I'm currently a Fedora Ambassador

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-27 Thread María Leandro
hi. I'm a student from Venezuela and Fedora Ambassador here, member of Venezuela's fedora community and some other LUG's arround the country. (almost all giving support and making all the art stuff) If anything comes up I'll be glad to help :D 2008/6/28 Matthieu Rondeau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-27 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Jack Aboutboul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There will be a community architecture team meeting in Raleigh next week at which I would like to present the final plan for this and officially launch. I have already been in contact with a number of students from

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-27 Thread João Felipe Santos
I want to do something related to this project here, in Florianópolis - Brazil. Here is our state's Federal University, so we have a big public :) I can also talk about Fedora to other universities students, too. João Felipe Santos On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Yaakov Nemoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recruiting Students (Campus Ambassadors)

2008-06-27 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jack Aboutboul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I would kick the idea out to the list and see what people had to say. My plan is to put up a wiki page for this tomorrow or over the weekend, so that it can be presented next week. I think there are a lot