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Initial council approval: [https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/22 April 27, 2015]
Initial council approval: [https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/22 April 27, 2015]
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Objective: University Involvement Initiative

Overview

Increase Fedora's exposure in university environments, particularly engineering universities.

Expected Impact

Increased user base with a specific focus on future contributors.

Timeframe

For maximum effect, this should kick into gear at the beginning of the (Northern Hemisphere) academic summer, with the intent of having events planned during the 2015-2016 school year.

Aspects

  • Coordinate marketing, ambassador and outreach groups to focus on university needs
  • Work with universities to provide install-fests during student orientation periods
  • Work with universities to regularly run Fedora-focused hackfests
  • Work with university IT departments to co-maintain one or more Fedora computer labs (and help them upgrade them during breaks)
  • Establish work-study, co-op and for-credit programs at universities

Metrics

  • Increased contributions from university programs
  • Increased bug reports and feature requests
  • Increased mind-share among potential contributors (not easily measured)

Additional Notes

Some prototypes of this have been performed at Brno universities over the last few years, with very positive results. We should coordinate with the contributors involved in those efforts and learn from their successes and failures.

There is also a University Outreach program run by Red Hat's "Open Source and Standards" department which was involved in the RIT partnership from which we eventually acquired Remy DeCausemaker. I assume he will have plenty to add to this discussion as well as contacts in the university world.


Objective Lead:

Remy DeCausemaker

History:

Initial council approval: April 27, 2015

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