[Ambassadors] My First Fedora Seminar

[Sudheer Satyanarayana]

Mustafa Qasim wrote:
> Hello!
>         I want to organize a Fedora Seminar at my university campus
> for my university fellows as soon as I got comfortable with what I am
> going to say. I am not a Linux Guru or FOSS advocate nor got much
> involved in Fedora Project. I can't figure out what should I say and
> what not, where should I limit my seminar.
Have you taken a look at Fedora Talking Points at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/TalkingPoints?

>  I am using Fedora for a
> couple of months but didn't know why I am not confident enough to play
> this role? Ooh no it's not that I can't stand before people and say
> something but my confidence is what do I know and how much I've grip
> over my topic. If I am confident with what I am gonna present then no
> matter there are 15 folks before me or 5 thousand :)
>
> I've listened/seen people holding a LOT of experience like System
> Programming Level etc. delivering speech on Linux related issues so,
> can't imagine how a newbie or a man in street can spread the word
> Fedora. Sometimes I think that I need a 10+ years experience in coding
> kernel and building Linux codes to be able to address on anything in
> Linux.
>
> Did u folks got my point?
>   
Is your audience tech savvy? Whenever I go for a talk, I first visualize 
my audience. I chalk out bullet points. I spend some time researching 
about the information that would be interesting to the audience. In 
almost all the GNU/Linux events I have participated in, I have talked 
about free software, GPL, distros, open source software applications and 
community. Fedora community would be a great topic to discuss in any 
Linux event.
> I've an idea that I should do a survey like asking folks there what
> they think Free software and Linux is, what application are there on
> daily usage list in their Windows PC..bla bla ....
>   
Consider talking about the FUDs thrown on free software and Linux. 
Squash all those FUDs and encourage people to start using free software, 
if they haven't already.
> After that I think that I can draw a sketch of what my seminar would be like?
>
> could u folks help me to extract maximum benefit from that survey?
>
> Any other Idea?
>
> Thanks in Advance :)
>
>
>   

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