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

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!!!

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

Sign up for a Fedora account at here, click the "set up an account link"
Join and introduce yourself the mailing list campus-ambassadors@list.fedoraproject.org - not active yet
Join the IRC Channels #fedora-campusamb and #fedora-ambassadors at irc.freenode.net
Put your name in the list below.
Get going!!

Adam Miller (maxamillion) - Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas)
Trever Fischer (tdfischer) - The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio)
Pramod S G (neoxyle) - Reva Institute of Technology and Management (Bangalore, India)