On 02/15/2016 03:39 PM, Ardian Haxha wrote:

Hey Justin,

I really liked the Campus Ambassadors program from the beginning, and seeing it come back makes me really happy. I am willing to join and help on this. The draft looks really good, I would suggest that we make some designs for this (banners, stickers etc) Also a badge would be of interest.

Kindly, Ardian.

Hi Ardian,

Very glad to hear you're interested! Thoughts, opinions, and brainstorming will be very useful in getting this running and back off the ground.

Getting some badges especially would be a great idea for this. Coming up with on-boarding badges is part of what CommOps can help identify and help with, so I am CC'ing the CommOps list to put it on the radar.

-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com

On 02/16/2016 01:07 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:

Hi Justin, I would definitely emphasize that we should be ready to help with Fedora deployments in class rooms. We should have some standard use case, e.g. a class room with 20 computers and document how to deploy Fedora on them, connect them to Active directory domain, batch maintain them (we can utilize Fleet Commander,...) etc., so that the campus ambassador doesn't have to learn from scratch when they're asked to help.

Having these resources available for Campus Ambassadors is crucial as well, I think. Getting Fedora deployed in the classroom is a fantastic way to begin exposing people to Linux and Fedora for the first time, in many cases, and it should definitely be a key part of our strategy for this.

Are there existing resources about the technical details for what a Campus Ambassador could share with campus faculty or administration for going about making a Fedora computer lab?

Maybe do we have examples of places where this has been done already successfully? A successful case example would be a great tool to help convince wary administrators or faculty to consider making the switch.

Additionally, another detail about the wiki revision is the note about how Campus Ambassadors fit into the puzzle in relation to regular Ambassadors. There's a few details that are different in how it's structured, so getting feedback on this side of things would also help considerably.

Thanks again, all!

-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com

On 03/03/2016 08:44 AM, Ardian Haxha wrote:

Hi,

I've sent some emails with my university, they have invited me for a meeting to see what we can do. The wiki that Justin is working looks solid for beginning the activity, but having something in final would be great. I suggest we get in touch ASAP with marketing and design team and start having fliers and banners/logos with the sign of Campus Ambassador.

Hey Ardian!

Took me a lot longer to cycle back on this email than I wanted, but this is a discussion we should definitely have.

What were your ideas and thoughts on putting together something "final" to represent the Campus Ambassadors? I am definitely a fan of creating some fliers or other easily distributable info sheet on the program to help encourage students at universities to get involved.

As far as internal structure / hierarchy goes, what were your thoughts on my wiki page draft? Were there any details that seemed questionable to you or maybe could be reworded? I'm still meaning to edit it and make the revision that event reports can go on the Community Blog *OR* personal blogs, as a benefit for personal branding for an Ambassador (this was discussed in a FAmNA meeting two weeks ago).

For anyone who isn't sure where this draft is, see here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jflory7/Scratchpad/Campus_Ambassadors

Other opinions and thoughts are surely welcome on this! Feel free to chime in if you have ideas or thoughts.

-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com

Hi Amit,

On 03/30/2016 03:21 AM, Amit Shah wrote:

Hello,

On (Mon) 15 Feb 2016 [14:00:13], Justin W. Flory wrote:

...

Hello all,

Recently, in FAmNA, we have been discussing a proposed way to revitalize the Campus Ambassadors program.

 https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/123

To help finalize the process, I have put together a new draft of the Campus Ambassadors wiki page. It would be great to have others' ideas, thoughts, and feedback about the rewrite.

This activity is promising to get new contributors and users, so good job on getting it going.

A suggestion I have is we look at a few courses universities offer, and what software they recommend for their labs or otherwise. We could have a table suggesting FOSS equivalents of popular proprietary software that gets used at universities.

Agreed – and in terms of curriculum, there's a few schools across the world that have open source as part of their curriculum. The Rochester Institute of Technology in New York has a minor in FOSS, which is something that can be used as a reference too.

Also, if we have experts (or even users) of such software (e.g. gnuplot), we should invite such experts to write Magazine posts about using such software, and also perhaps include a cheatsheet that maps workflows from the prorietary sw to the FOSS sw. This can serve two purposes: have the Magazine publicise free software (on Fedora), and also link these articles to the table on the wiki page with the FOSS sw counterparts.

With this info, when the campus ambassadors go to the univs, they can readily suggest software available, and when the campus labs get going, students know how to play around with the new(?) environment.

This is all fantastic feedback! To help centralize this discussion down and prevent mailing list cross-posting, I've created a ticket for this in the CommOps Trac. You're welcome to CC yourself and/or add some of your own thoughts and ideas to the ticket!

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/68

Thanks!

-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com