<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tejas Dinkar</b> <<a href="mailto:tejasdinkar@gmail.com">tejasdinkar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:39 +0000, Jon Fautley wrote:<br>> > I cannot make it to big events. Why should I have to?<br>><br>> You shouldn't have to. If you can't make it, you can't make it. Simple<br>> as that. I don't think we should be forcing ambassadors down a specific
<br>> path. Some people just simply don't like attending Open Source events,<br>> but they can still contribute to the project in other ways.<br><br>+1 +1 +1<br><br>> > It's about telling people who ask about Fedora, about answering their questions, it's about saying why they should (if at all) switch to Fedora from another distro.
<br>><br>> +1 to that.<br><br>Or, in few cases, why they SHOULDN'T switch to fedora.<br><br>> The best way to get to the real techies is to attend LUG meetings, or<br>> specifically 'geeky' open source events.
<br><br>well, the local lug guys already use Linux, and they have heard about<br>fedora, so we need not think about them too much either.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, i think targeting the students and colleges is a must +1. Its really necessary to tell the students in the colleges abt open source, so that they can look at this alternative in their earlier stages of carrier and drive them to contribute and use FOSS.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">but I'd say target the students... talk in colleges. Teach students the<br></blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">principles of free software.<br><br>gja<br><br>--<br>Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list<br>
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br><br>Puneet Batura<br>Open Source Developer