On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Frans Thamura <frans@meruvian.org> wrote:
i propose we have 3 program , user group program, university program and academy program, and i think student ambasador will work special in all of them
1. student in user group help evangelism, and meet up 2. university, they can become trainer , my opinion university also can held in company as training center. 3. academy program, mostly embed the material above and openstack under curriculum, inside lab as school practicum.
An aspect that would require some more thoughts is - what are the intended objectives. And, I ask this from the context of the current user groups. A project like OpenStack receives wider and faster adoption in what are called "communities of practice" - individuals/groups who are already exploring various means to solve a similar problem and, they would like to see how OpenStack fits in. A student has a couple of constraints. In no particular order, these are - unfamiliarity with the given domain, unavailability of hardware/infrastructure to test, irrelevance to the curriculum. However, the upside is that a student does have a very active community they can participate in and, begin contributing to - via all the standard means. Observing whether the current user groups can undertake activities that do outreach to students is perhaps a better bet than opening up new programs. And, figuring if there needs to be anything special to help the user groups encourage the students to contribute. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>