[Fedora-ambassadors-list] About Fedora Promotion in Universities/Schools

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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Hi,

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>                     About promoting Fedora in Nepal, I thought of
> universities and schools as the starters and ideal implementation
> centres. Hence I planned to first implement in my own
> university(Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal); as a result of which
> we are running Fedora Core and Red Hat on our computer laboratory at the
> university. Moreover, we have already organized training sessions to
> facililate Windows users to work on Fedora so as to promote "Migration
> to Linux".
>                        In the same way, I'm planning to propose other
> universities and colleges of the nation to adopt Fedora, and organize
> necessary events (may be training sessions, Seminars, Demonstration
> Classes etc). I also like the idea of availing Fedora at the library.
> That will really help students move towards Fedora (Live CDs + User
> Guide could be a good option).

This is good work you are doing. What I would suggest that you do is
make sure that the administration (or at least some one in it) is your
internal champion and sponsor. The reason for this is that most often a
project of getting Linux into the computer labs dies out because not
enough momentum has been gathered to keep the game going. For that
reason, perhaps the best way would be to keep on encouraging the younger
lot of students - they will have more time (as in academic life) to play
around with the OS in the lab and also will have enough enthusiasm to
keep things going.

The real stuff is to getting students comfortable with the idea of
working together, sharing knowledge with each other. Sooner or later
student groups (and especially individuals) pick out their area of
interest and keep on specialising in that. That is the time when you
really have a nicely interactive user community going.

You could begin by looking at:

o Introducing Fedora as an everyday desktop
o Introducing Fedora as a developer desktop
o Bite sized (20 mins) talks about various features in Fedora
o If possible look at setting up an internal mailing list of sorts
whereby you can also get folks to talk to each other about issues and
discoveries.

Regards
Sankarshan


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