[Ambassadors] Re: Event Report: University of South Carolina - School of Technology Support and Training Management

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:18 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:03 -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> > As a followup to this, Paul referenced this in an email on the Open
> > Source in Education list. Shortly thereafter I received an email from
> > Tim Budd at Oregon State University with an invitation to come present
> > the Fedora Project.
> 
> Yeah, couple of thoughts came to mind, which was why I thought we'd best
> have this discussion here.
> 
> * Tim Budd has been exposed to Fedora folks in various ways, and I
> wanted to be sure we were coordinating working with him and his group;
> 
> * For the most part, one Ambassador is the same as another.  I'd like to
> make sure that we spread the contact/talk/present modes around to
> everyone.  Reasons:  spread the load to make it easier to bear, thus
> more fun floats to the surface; spread the fame to prevent painful cults
> of personality :); make it easier to spread and scale to all the
> potential opportunities.  Having more folks trained and experienced
> helps all of that.
> 
> * The West Coast is really big and we don't have good inter-city
> transportation.  For big travel, we should combine and focus around the
> main regional events (LFNW, UTOSC, SCALE, etc.)
> 
> * There *are* folks from Oregon on this list and around; hopefully
> they'll get excited about doing more regionally.
> 
> * Larry Cafiero is working with some folks on a Lindependence event in
> Oregon, so maybe that can coincide.

John Poelstra, the Fedora Program Manager, lives in the Portland area.
He might be interested in doing the presentation if needed -- it's low
drag and high impact.  He's always around on IRC and I'm sure he'll get
in touch if he thinks he could be available for it.

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