im ready to help too in the irc session i can help in the c) sometime
see you, Alice On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Francesca Ciceri <madame...@yahoo.it>wrote: > [CC-ed project: the discussion is about how to organize a new round of DW > IRC training sessions, a general idea on the schedule could be find at > [1], please reply on -project] > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:13:48, Margarita Manterola wrote: > [snip] > > >Things I think that could be improved: > > > > * I'm not convinced that having a separate channel for questions when > > the people attending is less than 20 is helpful. It means having to > > constantly switch between 2 windows, for a very very small reduction > > in noise. Until the amount of people attending really justifies it, I > > think that sticking to one channel is preferable. > > Yes, I agree. > > > * Having the sessions always at roughly the same time gave them some > > coherency, but also meant that people with something already scheduled > > for that time (I teach classes at that time, for example) or where > > that time catches them in the middle of their timezone night, could > > practically never attend. So, I think that some diversity (maybe > > alternate between two times?) could be better. > > And agree to this too. Probably the better is to alternate between two > times to fit different timezones, as you suggested. > > [snip] > > > Francisca, > > .oO( s/i/e ;) ) > > > it's my understanding that you need some volunteers to > > help you out. Why don't you detail exactly what you need from the > > volunteers so that someone can step up to help? > > Yes, as the idea is to have a lot of sessions, are necessary some people to > manage/organize them. > So things to do are essentially: > > a) organize schedule, contacting possible speakers > b) promote the event (first with a general announcement, then > with reminders some days before each session, keeping the related > wiki page up-to-date, posting on identica and MLs) > c) handle the session itself: not a heavy work but is important > to be present on each session. > d) write down the wiki-tutorial based on the session log > > I can do a) and b) but for c) we probably needs to be two or more (so we > can do it in turns) and need someone (better two persons) for d). > So, to reach more people I've added in CC -project ;) > > Another thing it came out, talking with zack: maybe could be useful a > specific IRC channel for the training sessions. > The rationale is that this way we could encourage more people to do > their irc sessions (also sessions targeted to audience different from the > DW one). For instance, there was a proposal[2] for online sessions > similar to the Ubuntu "developer week". > I'm not completely sure about it, but I'd like to read your opinion as > the idea could be interesting. > > Cheers, > Francesca > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2011/03/msg00001.html > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/09/msg00093.html > -- > <taffit> eof: when I want something | "Convince people with results, > done quickly, I don't wait for | rather than words" > others ;) | Enrico Zini > > >
