Ubuntu's Campus Plans?

[Jon Reagan]

In the state of Georgia, we currently do not have any such initiatives,
although there are several LUGs that are part of the universities, and
they recommend Ubuntu.  We've been in contact with them in the past, and
even gave them some CDs and stickers.

Jon

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 13:36 +0500, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
> I came across the following post on various FOSS forums and was
> wondering how other LoCo Teams may be catering to similar Ubuntu led
> initiatives or is there even one?
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors
> 
> == What is the Campus Ambassadors program? ==
> 
> * To build up individual Fedora communities on campuses, and provide
> resources for students to organize events and contribute their code
> and ideas to Fedora.
> * To help students network with other open source and Fedora
> contributors, and lay the groundwork for potential summer internships
> * To create a fun and exciting network of passionate, dedicated people
> to spearhead Fedora's presence on college campuses
> * To work with faculty and students both to promote free and open
> source software on campus
> 
> == What do Campus Ambassadors get? ==
> 
> The Fedora Campus Ambassadors program receive many benefits, amongst
> the following:
> 
> * Learn and Increase your knowledge about Fedora, Linux and Open Source
> * Become a member of the foremost Open Source community
> * Create a name for yourself and network with a world class team of
> people who put together and run the most cutting edge Distro and
> community out there
> * Have your blog aggregated on the Fedora Planet blog site
> * A great opportunity to learn and develop communication skills
> * Lots of experience doing community driven marketing
> * Stipends for running an event (pizza, soda, etc.)
> * Schwag to give out at events and a cool exclusive Campus
> Ambassadors, t-shirt
> * Earn a trip to FUDCon!!!
> 
> == What is required of Campus Ambassadors? ==
> 
> * One tech talk per semester highlighting Fedora and/or Fedora-related
> technologies
> * Let us know an event is taking place by posting to the wiki and the
> mailing list
> * An event report and blog post as a followup
> * Work with faculty and staff to find new ways and opportunities for
> Fedora on your campus
> * Be a self-starter and identify other ways in which we can help YOU!
> * Attend periodic irc meetings to help coordinate efforts
> * Collaborate and coordinate with other Fedora presence on/near your campus
> 
> == How do I become a Campus Ambassador? ==
> 
> * Sign up for a Fedora account at
> [http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora here], click the "set up an
> account link"
> * Join and introduce yourself the mailing list [http://linkhere
> campus-ambassadors at list.fedoraproject.org] - not active yet
> * Join the IRC Channels #fedora-campusamb and #fedora-ambassadors at
> [irc://irc.freenode.net irc.freenode.net]
> * Get going!!
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards.
> --------------------------
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