Re: Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory
On 03/17/2016 02:23 AM, Viorel Tabara wrote:
> On Tue Mar 15 2016 09:36:43 GMT-0600 (MDT) Justin W. Flory <jflory7(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Viorel. Curious, did you also have any
>> ideas on ways that non-academic professionals in academic settings can
>> contribute? I'm assuming this might be like a system administrator at a
>> school, or a similar type of position.
>
> I'll have to start with a disclaimer: These are my personal thoughts and do not
> represent the views of my employer.
>
> I do believe that we need to educate the young generation about the values of
> open source and as a professional (I'm not sure if that's a term used across
> all educational institutions or only at AU) I can do that by connecting the
> academic and professional open source advocates with the community [1] and by
> sharing resources as I come across them [2]. Where Fedora could come in is by
> being *the* platform to make this happen: technically, socially and culturally
> -- more than just a Fedora Ansible-ized OpenStack lab. The logistics of how to
> get there is what most of us technical people may be missing.
>
> [1]:https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/957162/surviving-on-open-source-an-au-course#comment_24486936
> [2]:https://landing.athabascau.ca/pages/view/999709/open-source-course
>
The links you shared to Athabasca University's pages were awesome to
read about. :) These are exactly the kinds of things I think we as a
community should be supporting and helping grow.
I completely agree with the points you mentioned. However, when it comes
to finding ways to deploy and implement this in schools, I'm definitely
not an expert nor will I act like I am. Perhaps Remy could chime in on
this specifically because it definitely is within his realm of expertise
from his time at RIT.
I think this thread in itself could make a good topic for the next
CommOps meeting!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
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Re: [Campus Ambassadors] Proposed wiki rewrite
by Justin W. Flory
On 03/08/2016 01:32 PM, Neville A. Cross wrote:
> I think that one thing that may be useful to set as part of the goals
> to try to inspire teachers and staff on campus to become part of
> ambassadors and campus ambassadors.
>
> The rationale to include this is that a student may spend from 3 to 5
> years in the university depending on the studying program, but a
> teacher or staff may stay at the university longer.
>
> If the student didn't inspire other students about fedora, fedora's
> presence will end when the student graduates. Besides a teacher or
> staff may have greater audience than a student.
>
> It may happen that the teacher or staff may be tempted to use fedora
> resources to make their classes or labs more appealing, this may be a
> gray area. Like: "I will teach an extra class with free pizza which
> will be using fedora". I will trust that most of us are for the
> freedom.
>
> In other hand it may be difficult for some countries this level of
> sponsoring. Most of the reimbursement process is made by paypal. In
> some countries you can not get funds by paypal. Some of the countries
> that you can get the funds you can only used as a electronic wallet and
> you can not cash that money. For some people electronic money is
> useful, but not for all. So we have to be careful to not create
> unrealistic expectations regarding sponsoring.
>
> Just my two cents on this topic.
Hey Neville,
Thanks for chiming in on this topic.
I definitely agree that getting teachers and academic faculty involved
as Campus Ambassadors is a crucial and important dynamic. Like you
noted, there is a much larger window for how long the faculty member can
impact youth and introduce a new generation to Linux and Fedora.
I'm trying to think of a way to frame this within the current draft on
the wiki, but I'm thinking maybe it becomes a two-pronged rewrite. There
could be a section for students and another section for teachers /
faculty to get involved as Campus Ambassadors.
My concerns are whether it would be confusing to keep the students in
the same mailing list / agenda planning as faculty members. Both
students and faculty may need resources unique from one another in terms
of guidance or strategical planning for events.
What do you all think about adding the faculty dynamic to the Campus
Ambassadors rewrite?
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
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