Hi there, The people of OpenHatch have recently organized an IRC event called "Build it" [2] explaining to new people how to build a certain program. This has been shown to be quite successful in bootstrapping contributions [3].
After some talk about this on IRC with different people, we came to the idea that it would be nice to do a similar thing through Debian Women. In our case, "building Debian" is not a simple task, but getting the source, patching and building a single package is a very simple task that might not seem like that for someone new, and thus works very well for bootstrapping. The idea for the event would be to hold this during one day (proposed date: Saturday May 7th, in two weeks), with 2 scheduled times for people in different timezones. My proposed times would be: 11:00 UTC for people in Oceania, Asia, Africa and Europe, and 22:00 UTC for people in the Americas. As with any event organized by Debian Women, it would be an event that's specially aimed to women who want to build their first package, but anybody would be welcome to participate. Asheesh, from OpenHatch, would help us with the communication of the event for university students. But of course we would need to try to post it on many places to get to reach as many people as possible. After this event, it would be great if we already had other IRC sessions scheduled, so that people that attended would already know when the next event is taking place. What does everybody think? If the consensus is that this is a good idea, we should start advertising it soon. Also, I could hold both sessions myself, but it would be nice if other people would also volunteer for the tutoring, or as extra helpers. [1] http://openhatch.org/ [2] https://openhatch.org/wiki/Build_it [3] http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/why-outreach.html -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinN7DA4HhXkan6_3X489utM2ay=a...@mail.gmail.com
