Campus-ambassadors December 2010

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Linuxtage @ ETH Zurich
by Marcus Moeller 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi all. I just want to join up the Campus Ambassadors as that's exactly what I am already doing for a while now. For those who do not know me yet, I am working at the ETH in Zurich and am (together with red_alert) responsible for the Linux deployment infrastructure. We have already ported about 500 studroom PCs to Fedora this summer which was a great success. Together with theAlternative (a group of students who are interested in digital sustainability), we are organizing an bi-yearly event called Linuxtage where students can join up and are getting help in installing Linux: http://www.project21.ch/projekte/thealternative/linuxtage-hs2010 (mostly in German but a few English notes below) It consists of an introduction course, two install evenings (one at the ETHZ and one at the University Zurich) and an advanced course. Due to the fact that the students already know Fedora now from their studroom computers they are really interested in having it on their own computer to. As it's not really limited even ppl from the region could join the events (and also do :)) So what's next: I am going to write a blog about the last install days (and even about some problems we had/have) and try to promote it a bit more. If it makes sense I could even Link the event on an event page. We try to streamline it with the Fedora release dates (which does not always work) but if so we could perhaps even announce it as a "Launch Party". -- Greets Marcus

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by ayush khanna 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Dear Sir/Ma'am,I am Ayush Khanna, a 2nd year Engineering student majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at Thapar University(Punjab, India). I subscribed to the Campus Ambassador Program being conducted by the Fedora Project. Unfortunately I found the information provided on the website a little ambiguous and wanted to clear a few doubts. Firstly, how long does it take for the decision to induct someone into this program take?Secondly, how will the intimations and discussions take place once someone is selected?Also, is there any time duration for which one can be a campus ambassador? Looking forward to hearing from you soon, Regards,Ayush Khanna

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Heartbeat Check
by Ryan Rix 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Hey everyone! How ya doin'? :) So this semester is just about wrapped up all over the place, I'd imagine, I've been doing some thinking ahead on next semester. But first, introspection, what's everyone been up to? Any good CampusAmb stories? I guess I"ll start. As some of you know, this semester is my first at Arizona State University, one of the largest public schools in the USA, majoring Computer Science. It's been a blast, and I've met all sorts of really incredible folks. I've fallen in to a group of really cool upper classmen, most using either Ubuntu or Fedora, and some KDEheads (important to me ;). We put on an InstallFest (more like a general meeting, I guess, not much installing it seemed) for the university LUG, which went off fairly well; we're going to transition from only meeting in a mailing list to having in-person monthly meetings. Woot! I've also got involved in ASU's robotics club, which uses a ton of open source, and targets linux (CentOS to be exact) as one of their remote control systems. yay! :) And now talk about your plans for next semester! Next semester is FUDCon, which ASU is hosting, mostly due to the awesome work of Marketing team lead and The New Girl fedora project manager. :) AWESOME opportunities there, we're working with a few different groups on campus, including ASU's law department as a few Red Hat lawyers will be speaking at the conference. Much win! I'm also considering running for ASULUG office, depending on who is graduating. We have a great platform, and a nice community, we just need someone to *do* something with it, and that's kind of my goal. As a longer term goal, I'm planning a POSSE event (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE) locally which will bring ASU's professors together with various other schools locally and some really awesome developers to Make Awesome Happen, and get these professors involved in FOSS. Because that's the end goal, right? :) Feel free to discuss what everyone else is doing, even if it's "talking to friends about Fedora", because that's still awesome. :) Ryan! -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ == == http://rix.si/page/contact/ if you need a word ==

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