(cc: global team as Debian Day goals will profit from global team's insights)
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Andy Oram <an...@oreilly.com> wrote: > I joined the team to help organize Debian Day--even though I'm not > local to NY, I'm in Boston--because I was helping to plan an early > version of the outreach track. I have a basic question. > > What is the goal of outreach to local communities? For instance: > > * To promote wider adoption of Debian GNU/Linux > > * To promote adoption of GNU/Linux or other free software, more > broadly > > * To learn the software needs of local groups and whether Debconf > participants can help them > > * To recruit developers, testers, or other community support from > local groups > > And you could probably think up even more! Those are all very good. I'd like to add something on the line of "To transforms users into active participants" but I lack good wording. At any rate, I just wanted to say that you're spot on. P. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
