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[Joshua Wulf]

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
>      
>     -- 
>     http://clunixchit.blogspot.com 
>
>
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