Hi Marga! On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:03:36PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to Asheesh for some editing and generally friendlying the text. > Here's an updated version, most probably the final version unless > anyone has any other comments. > > I will need help with spreading this, so if anyone wants to try and do > some "outreach", it'd be great.
Wow, the announcement is really good (IMO). Thank you (and Asheesh) for writing it! I've CC-ed -publicity in order to use their super-spread-powers and maybe make a press release of it: Alexander, is it possible? If not we could add a paragraph in the next DPN about it. ;) [@ -publicity people: below the text of the announcement, quoted from Marga's mail] > *-*-*-* > > Are you enthusiastic about Debian and thinking about contributing? We > want to teach you the basics. > > We are convinced that there are a lot of people out there that want to > get involved with Free Software but don't know where to start. For > Debian, the most common task you'll do as a contributor is rebuilding > a package. > > The Debian Women project, in collaboration with the OpenHatch project, > will be holding an IRC event to help people that want to compile their > first Debian package from source, and apply their first patch. > > The event > > On Saturday May 7th, two tutorial sessions will be held on > #debian-women on irc.debian.org to help people rebuild a package for > the first time. > > The earlier session, suggested for those that live in Oceania, Asia, > Africa and Europe, will be held at 11:00 UTC. The later session, > suggested for those that live in the Americas, will be held at 22:00 > UTC. > > You can find out the exact time in your timezone by using the timezone > converter: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc > > There will be people available to answer questions and generally help > out with any difficulties that might arise all along the day. > > Intended audience > > This event is aimed to anyone who wants to rebuild a Debian package > for the first time, it's a simple task that doesn't require any > previous knowledge, only a working installation of Debian (or Ubuntu, > or other Debian-derived system). We want to particularly encourage > women who want to get involved, to take their first steps in > contributing to Free Software, but everybody is welcome. > > More about IRC > > IRC is a real-time chat system you can use to get in touch with > members of the Debian community. You can connect to IRC through lots > of different clients, including xchat, pidgin and konversation. > > About Debian Women > > The Debian Women project seeks to balance and diversify the Debian > Project by actively engaging with interested women and encouraging > them to become more involved with Debian. http://women.debian.org > > About OpenHatch > > OpenHatch is an open source community aiming to help newcomers find > their way into free software projects. It works towards this goal > through on-line and outreach events. This event is a reappropriation > of the OpenHatch "Build it" events. > http://openhatch.org/ > > *-*-*-* > Cheers, Francesca -- <taffit> eof: when I want something | "Convince people with results, done quickly, I don't wait for | rather than words" others ;) | Enrico Zini
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