On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi Lenadro, > > Hi Holger and Moray! Thank you so much for your feedback! I'm sending an e-mail right now to the folks at UCA with your answers. Cheers, > On Samstag, 3. März 2012, Leandro Gómez wrote: > > Yesterday, I had a meeting with the Technology Academic Advisor and the > IT > > Department Chief of UCA, and both of them are very interested in a > possible > > DebConf at UCA. > > Yay! > > > They asked me how DebConf/Debian can help the university. > > > > During the global team meeting we talked about classes or workshops. Is > it > > possible to put up a wiki with something like this > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/SkillsExchange ? > > Yup, I guess this will happen again. In the past usually only quite close > to > DebCamp only... > > > So that volonteers > > can sign up and UCA can see what we can offer them? > > Sure. (Please tell them that we expect UCA attendees to register as well, > so > that we can plan, eg also room needs.) > > > They also mentioned a couple of other things: > > > > 1. They are considering migrating databases, apps and the teacher's > laptops > > to free software. The local LUG at the U and the Debian Nicaragua > community > > could help with some practical stuff, but they need someone with > experience > > to give them some advice on how to implement such migration. > > Great, I'de love to talk to them about using Debian Edu for this. > > http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/es/ is a pointer which you > might give them already. (The translation is sadly not complete yet, help > welcome! How is described in that very manual.) > > > 2. Books. The IT department need books for their library. The language > > doesn't matter, neither if they're physical or electronic books. > > I guess we can easily do a call for books a few weeks before dc12 starts > and > quite some people will bring something... > > > Overall they're very open on having DebConf at the UCA campus. We even > > talked about using the spaces 24/7 and that's doable. > > Nice! Very. (+what Moray said) > > > Next step is getting back to them with the answers to their questions and > > meet the head of the department, before the meeting with the vice-dean. > > Cool. Good luck & enjoy! ;) > > > >
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