On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, susmit shannigrahi sent out 1.2K bytes to say: > <quote> > We don't encourage students to be ambassadors. And it is impossible > when you have no experience with FOSS. > > If you are interested, please have a look at join.fedoraproject.org > and find out if any other role suits you best. If yes, subscribe to > fedora-india list[1] and send a mail with your skill-set/interests. > > Alternatively, you can also ask for guidance on #fedora-india on IRC > freenode. > Thanks. > > [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india > </quote>
Just my Rs 4 on this. I agree strongly that people with no FOSS experience should be discouraged from taking up the role of and ambassador (thanks to a late night rant I subjected mether to). However, since when have we discouraged students from becoming ambassadors? I thought that most of our indian ambassadors were students at some point when they started. Also, Students have the most free time and often the backbone of a FOSS project. Wasn't the Fedora project started and run by a student as a college project? I think I understand the sentiment behind susmit's response. But I think we should be more careful to word our responses such that it is clear that someone is being considered for the position primarily on their merits as a (Fedora/FOSS) contributor. Also, do we discourage students from our Campus Ambassador program as well :p? -- Tejas Dinkar http://gja.in _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
