[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Atfedoraproject.org fro Ambassadors
Joshua Wulf
jwulf at redhat.com
Mon Nov 21 16:49:19 UTC 2005
Hornain Frederic wrote:
> Dear *,
>
> Well, I have started my pilgrim mission. Gosh, it was not so obvious!
>
> Indeed, last saturday I went to a french engineering school where I
> talked to the principal about fedora and the fact to do in a first
> time a fedora project presentation to students.
>
> He was very enthousiast to do it and told me that teachers
> could also be really interested.
>
> During our conversation, he gave me his visit card and I was a little
> bit embarassed to give him mine cause I haven't got any fedora project
> vist card on me. - Could the fedora project provide us visit cards or
> could we print one based on a standard available on the fedora project
> web site ? -
>
> So he asked me where I can be reach at the fedora project. Then I had
> to give him the email address coming from my company.
> He was a little bit confused cause he did not understood why I gave
> him an e-mail address having no relationship with the subject of our
> conversation. Ok, I can admit that this kind of situation permit to
> explain deeper the base of Open source and how the community works.
>
> However, it was not so obvious to be convincing when you are in face
> of peolple who they know nothing about open source.
> So, little details can be really helpful.
>
> Well, we talked more than hour.
>
> In addition, he asked me some questions which I had some difficulties
> to answer.
> For instance :
>
> - how is structured the fedora project organization - in term of
> organizational tree - ?
>
> - Does it exist a program of partnership between schools and fedora?
>
> - Can they use the reference "fedora project" in there school's
> presentation brochure if they are interacting with the fedora community ?
> - and so on and so for ...
>
> Anyway, we have planned to do a presentation of fedora -overview- to
> students as soon as I would have done my presentation slides and an
> offcial have commited them.
>
> Thank you in advance if you can give the answers to the previous question.
>
> BTW, if you have any remarks, feel free to contact me.
>
> Best Regards
> Fred
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces at redhat.com]*On Behalf Of
> *Chitlesh GOORAH
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:09 PM
> *To:* fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* [Fedora-ambassadors-list] @fedoraproject.org and experience
>
> Hello everyone,
> Concerning the last meeting!
> We talked about many stuffs.
> Among these, I think tchung pointed out that it would be good
> that ambassadors could get @fedoraproject.org
> <http://fedoraproject.org> alias for emails.
> I was wondering if its possible to get it.
>
> Secondly, I was among a group of friends last night "marketing
> fedora core".
> I found it very useful to have a wallpaper with all the major
> websites listed onto it.
> It is easily when you have their eyes and mind glued on the topic
> "fedora core"
> for example, on my wallpaper there were 2 addresses
> fedoraforum.org <http://fedoraforum.org> and fedoraproject.org
> <http://fedoraproject.org>.
> when i was talking about what is fedora and saying that this is an
> open source project.
> They pronounced the word "project" with me.
> same happened to the word "forum" when i said that the best way to
> get most of fedora
> is having contact with people on forums and mailing lists.
>
> This was my little experience of last night.
> Ive enhanced my wallpaper and posted it on kde-looks.org
> <http://kde-looks.org>
> It would be nice if everyone shares their experience as a fedora
> ambassador so that other
> ambassadors can learn from it.
>
> regards,
> Chitlesh GOORAH
>
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