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 ideas--let me hear them.

Thanks,
Jack

Jack Aboutboul wrote:

Hey All,

I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told
that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora
and Fedora marketing efforts. I have been working for the past couple
of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I
tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". The mission of the campus
ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox
Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body
about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events.

Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info
session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is
constant action and interest in Fedora.

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
various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so
far there is interest.

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.

Thanks,
Jack



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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, 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

But bright ideas? Hmmm. I'm open to new ideas, but I can tell you what
we're doing so far at Cabrillo College.

The Cabrillo College GNU/Linux Users Group holds biweekly installfests
during the school semesters (monthly during the summer). During new
releases -- like the Fedora 9 release -- the installfests take on a
"theme," and in the Fedora 9 instance it was "Hats Off to Fedora 9"
back in May.

Generally speaking, there is always a Fedora presence at meetings and
installfests (by me, for one, but we've also had another local
ambassador, Karsten Wade, attend as well). There's no reason why we
couldn't ramp that up to have info sessions and/or tech talk types of
events on campus during the course of the school year.

One of the things we're doing at Cabrillo College is creating our own
distro, called Seahawk GNU/Linux (the Seahawk is the Cabrillo mascot).
Not that the world needs yet another distro, mind you, but we're using
the project as a teaching tool more than an actual distro that will
take the world by storm. Of course, it's based on Fedora.

How that translates into promotional value for Fedora is that those of
us working on the project -- students in the Computer and Information
Systems department primarily -- work specifically with Fedora and, as
a result, gain a familiarity to it. Also, as Fedora is connected to
the distro, those who get introduced to GNU/Linux through the
school-based distro get a sort of introduction to Fedora as well (and,
naturally, they might be inclined -- or urged -- to use Fedora).

For those who have stayed awake up to this point, thanks for reading.

Larry Cafiero
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero

On 6/28/08, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 than the
> current ambassadors setup.
>
> I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>
>
> Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told
> > that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora
> > and Fedora marketing efforts. I have been working for the past couple
> > of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I
> > tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". The mission of the campus
> > ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox
> > Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body
> > about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events.
> >
> > Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info
> > session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is
> > constant action and interest in Fedora.
> >
> > 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
> > various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so
> > far there is interest.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jack
> >
> >
>
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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 in the form of
providing software and other instructional materials to introduce
students to Fedora, if they exist (and, to say the least, we can draw
from our own experiences in promoting Fedora on campus).

Sorry



On 6/28/08, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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, 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
>
> But bright ideas? Hmmm. I'm open to new ideas, but I can tell you what
> we're doing so far at Cabrillo College.
>
> The Cabrillo College GNU/Linux Users Group holds biweekly installfests
> during the school semesters (monthly during the summer). During new
> releases -- like the Fedora 9 release -- the installfests take on a
> "theme," and in the Fedora 9 instance it was "Hats Off to Fedora 9"
> back in May.
>
> Generally speaking, there is always a Fedora presence at meetings and
> installfests (by me, for one, but we've also had another local
> ambassador, Karsten Wade, attend as well). There's no reason why we
> couldn't ramp that up to have info sessions and/or tech talk types of
> events on campus during the course of the school year.
>
> One of the things we're doing at Cabrillo College is creating our own
> distro, called Seahawk GNU/Linux (the Seahawk is the Cabrillo mascot).
> Not that the world needs yet another distro, mind you, but we're using
> the project as a teaching tool more than an actual distro that will
> take the world by storm. Of course, it's based on Fedora.
>
> How that translates into promotional value for Fedora is that those of
> us working on the project -- students in the Computer and Information
> Systems department primarily -- work specifically with Fedora and, as
> a result, gain a familiarity to it. Also, as Fedora is connected to
> the distro, those who get introduced to GNU/Linux through the
> school-based distro get a sort of introduction to Fedora as well (and,
> naturally, they might be inclined -- or urged -- to use Fedora).
>
> For those who have stayed awake up to this point, thanks for reading.
>
>
> Larry Cafiero
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero
>
>
> On 6/28/08, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 than the
> > current ambassadors setup.
> >
> > I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jack
> >
> >
> > Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> >
> > > Hey All,
> > >
> > > I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told
> > > that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora
> > > and Fedora marketing efforts. I have been working for the past couple
> > > of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I
> > > tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". The mission of the campus
> > > ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox
> > > Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body
> > > about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events.
> > >
> > > Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info
> > > session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is
> > > constant action and interest in Fedora.
> > >
> > > 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
> > > various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so
> > > far there is interest.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jack
> > >
> > >
> >
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:

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 in the form of

providing software and other instructional materials to introduce

students to Fedora, if they exist (and, to say the least, we can draw

from our own experiences in promoting Fedora on campus).



Sorry







On 6/28/08, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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, 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

>

> *But bright ideas? Hmmm. I'm open to new ideas, but I can tell you what

> *we're doing so far at Cabrillo College.

>

> *The Cabrillo College GNU/Linux Users Group holds biweekly installfests

> *during the school semesters (monthly during the summer). During new

> *releases -- like the Fedora 9 release -- the installfests take on a

> *"theme," and in the Fedora 9 instance it was "Hats Off to Fedora 9"

> *back in May.

>

> *Generally speaking, there is always a Fedora presence at meetings and

> *installfests (by me, for one, but we've also had another local

> *ambassador, Karsten Wade, attend as well). There's no reason why we

> *couldn't ramp that up to have info sessions and/or tech talk types of

> *events on campus during the course of the school year.

>

> *One of the things we're doing at Cabrillo College is creating our own

> *distro, called Seahawk GNU/Linux (the Seahawk is the Cabrillo mascot).

> *Not that the world needs yet another distro, mind you, but we're using

> *the project as a teaching tool more than an actual distro that will

> *take the world by storm. Of course, it's based on Fedora.

>

> *How that translates into promotional value for Fedora is that those of

> *us working on the project -- students in the Computer and Information

> *Systems department primarily -- work specifically with Fedora and, as

> *a result, gain a familiarity to it. Also, as Fedora is connected to

> *the distro, those who get introduced to GNU/Linux through the

> *school-based distro get a sort of introduction to Fedora as well (and,

> *naturally, they might be inclined -- or urged -- to use Fedora).

>

> *For those who have stayed awake up to this point, thanks for reading.

>

>

> *Larry Cafiero

> *http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero

>

>

> *On 6/28/08, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 than the

> *> current ambassadors setup.

> *>

> *> *I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.

> *>

> *> *Thanks,

> *> *Jack

> *>

> *>

> *> *Jack Aboutboul wrote:

> *>

> *> > Hey All,

> *> >

> *> > I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told

> *> > that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora

> *> > and Fedora marketing efforts. *I have been working for the past couple

> *> > of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I

> *> > tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". *The mission of the campus

> *> > ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox

> *> > Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body

> *> > about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events.

> *> >

> *> > Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info

> *> > session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is

> *> > constant action and interest in Fedora.

> *> >

> *> > 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

> *> > various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so

> *> > far there is interest.

> *> >

> *> > 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.

> *> >

> *> > Thanks,

> *> > Jack

> *> >

> *> >

> *>

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hi,



looks like ive missed a lot too.. *Im a student myself and an Ambassador.. the ideas great (im in) .. however what exactly are we doing ?? i mean has a draft or something been drawn up?? Objectives etc?? plan of action ??




regards,





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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 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 Alliance.



On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:

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 in the form of

providing software and other instructional materials to introduce

students to Fedora, if they exist (and, to say the least, we can draw

from our own experiences in promoting Fedora on campus).



Sorry







On 6/28/08, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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, 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

>

> *But bright ideas? Hmmm. I'm open to new ideas, but I can tell you what

> *we're doing so far at Cabrillo College.

>

> *The Cabrillo College GNU/Linux Users Group holds biweekly installfests

> *during the school semesters (monthly during the summer). During new

> *releases -- like the Fedora 9 release -- the installfests take on a

> *"theme," and in the Fedora 9 instance it was "Hats Off to Fedora 9"

> *back in May.

>

> *Generally speaking, there is always a Fedora presence at meetings and

> *installfests (by me, for one, but we've also had another local

> *ambassador, Karsten Wade, attend as well). There's no reason why we

> *couldn't ramp that up to have info sessions and/or tech talk types of

> *events on campus during the course of the school year.

>

> *One of the things we're doing at Cabrillo College is creating our own

> *distro, called Seahawk GNU/Linux (the Seahawk is the Cabrillo mascot).

> *Not that the world needs yet another distro, mind you, but we're using

> *the project as a teaching tool more than an actual distro that will

> *take the world by storm. Of course, it's based on Fedora.

>

> *How that translates into promotional value for Fedora is that those of

> *us working on the project -- students in the Computer and Information

> *Systems department primarily -- work specifically with Fedora and, as

> *a result, gain a familiarity to it. Also, as Fedora is connected to

> *the distro, those who get introduced to GNU/Linux through the

> *school-based distro get a sort of introduction to Fedora as well (and,

> *naturally, they might be inclined -- or urged -- to use Fedora).

>

> *For those who have stayed awake up to this point, thanks for reading.

>

>

> *Larry Cafiero

> *http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero

>

>

> *On 6/28/08, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 than the

> *> current ambassadors setup.

> *>

> *> *I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.

> *>

> *> *Thanks,

> *> *Jack

> *>

> *>

> *> *Jack Aboutboul wrote:

> *>

> *> > Hey All,

> *> >

> *> > I'm sorry I missed the marketing meeting earlier today, but I was told

> *> > that there was discussion of recruiting students to help out with Fedora

> *> > and Fedora marketing efforts. *I have been working for the past couple

> *> > of weeks to put together something modeled after the ambassadors which I

> *> > tentatively call "Campus Ambassadors". *The mission of the campus

> *> > ambassadors is something similar to what Mozilla does with the Firefox

> *> > Campus Rep program--to have someone who can speak to the student body

> *> > about Fedora and represent Fedora at relevant campus events.

> *> >

> *> > Also, I am looking to require campus ambassadors to hold one info

> *> > session or tech talk type thing per semester to make sure that there is

> *> > constant action and interest in Fedora.

> *> >

> *> > 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

> *> > various universities (Berkeley, Oswego, CMU, Auburn, Texas A&M) and so

> *> > far there is interest.

> *> >

> *> > 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.

> *> >

> *> > Thanks,

> *> > Jack

> *> >

> *> >

> *>

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 than the
> current ambassadors setup.
>
> I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.

A few thoughts now on reaching out to students ... perhaps later I'll
add some thoughts about reaching out to faculty and researchers.

One thing that would be immensely helpful to all campus communities is
promotional materials that could be distributed around campus. I don't
mean swag, but rather informational items like posters. Linux meetings
reach only a tiny part of campus. We need to catch the eye of people
all over campus. Posters located in the Design College just might
catch the eye of some budding graphics designer who would love a
project where their art might actually be used for example, but they
are unlikely candidates for attending a local LUG/FUG meeting. How
many marketing majors are aware that there are real life marketing
opportunities for them within the Fedora project while they are still
students? Reaching these students should be one focus of any campus
outreach.

If promotional material could be targeted to specific areas of need
that would be helpful too in getting the idea across to the technical
writing student that Fedora has something for *them* to do to
contribute. We can make students aware of Fedora with general Fedora
events, banners, posters. If we want new students to become actively
involved they need to see how they can contribute to the project by
doing things they are interested in doing. Not just look and say, "oh
Fedora, that's cool" as they walk by.

Similarly it would be nice to reach students more widely than we can
now when recruiting participants for Summer of Code projects or for
Fedora intern positions. While faculty is generally receptive to
passing along information about such opportunities to students there
is a limit to what can be expected of busy faculty members. Taping up
a poster outside the office or in the classroom is not too much of a
burden.

In all campus advertising I think it is really critical to make it
easy for the student to contact someone who can help guide them along
in their first steps. Ideally, I think there should be a local contact
on each promotional item. That way someone they can talk to directly
can help them join the Fedora project and mediate a contact between
the student and an appropriate mentor whether that mentor is local or
someone within the broader Fedora community.

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 colleges and universities is an
excellent direction. These are the folks that are going to influence
various decisions and how work is done in the future. Exposing them
to open source tools, philosophies and Fedora while in school is a
great way to both bolster the number of contributors to the project
and build a user base.

Several have already made excellent suggestions already as to more
specific areas to target and such.

> I want it to be different than the
> current ambassadors setup.

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
college campus and those of us working at open source conferences and
events can all benefit.

What do we gain by not working within the Ambassador framework for
this? I think this is a project that fits under the Ambassador group
quite nicely and would let us build on lessons already learned by that
group and also allow for lessons learned by ambassadors working on
college campuses to feed back into the ambassador group as well.

Regards,
Jeffrey

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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 the admin for fedora-my ..
>

Count me in too... I am a student from Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Regards,
Aravind

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Aravind
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Sure,

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 than the
> current ambassadors setup.
>
> I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.

I think it would be great to have a class that just focuses on open
source tools. I think I might have spoken to you about this before.
CS classes seem to be missing some practical lessons, like what to do
when your computer fails, how to install an operating system and
programs, how to build up a customized IDE, how to work with source
control, how to fiddle with an email program, and completely ignores
classical errors especially when working with real world libraries
taht can spit up any number of exceptions.

I think the lesson would follow something like this:
Day 1: Learn about GPG, homework, make GPG keys and submit them to a server
Day 2: Key signing party. All homework will be signed with your GPG key
Day 3: Error codes and exceptions, homework, here's a broken piece of
hardware, read a file or character stream from it.

Etc....

-Yaakov

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hi all:
*
i believe each ambassador has a plan to hold the perfection of Fedora Community. Let find and give some option to the new people who really wants to help Fedora and its Community. In this way, we can make a difference to the goal.

The Ambassadors should be a guide of those Student Ambassador and help them when and whenever they want. More than, encourage them to the best.
Once again, the aim of Fedora ambassadors are different than Student Ambassadors. We should work beside the student network and let them learn one step ahead to make Fedora more wide in marketing.
*
Regards,

Rashadul Islam
----------------------
Fedora Ambassador
Home Site: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RashadulIslam

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On 6/30/08, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond@gmail.com> wrote:
Sure,

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Jack Aboutboul <jaa@redhat.com> 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 than the

> current ambassadors setup.
>
> I know you guys have some bright ideas--let me hear them.

I think it would be great to have a class that just focuses on open
source tools.**I think I might have spoken to you about this before.

CS classes seem to be missing some practical lessons, like what to do
when your computer fails, how to install an operating system and
programs, how to build up a customized IDE, how to work with source
control, how to fiddle with an email program, and completely ignores

classical errors especially when working with real world libraries
taht can spit up any number of exceptions.

I think the lesson would follow something like this:
Day 1: Learn about GPG, homework, make GPG keys and submit them to a server

Day 2: Key signing party.**All homework will be signed with your GPG key
Day 3: Error codes and exceptions, homework, here's a broken piece of
hardware, read a file or character stream from it.

Etc....


-Yaakov

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