Hello Brenda J. Butler, Thanks for the detailed email ! :-)
>> young people today (everywhere), are just not interested in typing to write programs or communicate. -- Scary to imagine where this could lead ... We (all of us) can initiate process that will motivate contribution to community from schools. What the difference between contributing a code and volunteer some-where? Some people can volunteer, some people can write brilliant things (See value "Linus Torvalds", can anyone say that it be better to him volunteer gardening instead of writing code?) >> So I hope this helps! Course it helped a lot! Lots and lots of thanks! Soon I will send email to groups specified. Thanks a lot! On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Brenda J. Butler <b...@sourcerer.ca> wrote: > > > Hello Yehuda, > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:17:22AM +0300, Yehuda Korotkin wrote: > > Hello Debian Women, > > > > My name is Yehuda Korotkin and I teach technologies in one of leading > > colleges for women in Israel. > > > > I thought about the possibility of introduce Debian and the Debian > > community to the girls that i teach. > > > > Our girls will install Debian Linux for the first time in their lives > next > > week. I would like to take them on a journey in the Debian world (from > > installation to community behind code). And give them a feeling of > welcome > > and belonging to Debian. > > > > I think would be fun and interesting to make a video conference call with > > community and give them a general explanation about Debian, introduce > them > > to the community and get them welcome to the world of Debian > > > > We could allocate up to 45 minutes for this conference. > > The study hours are GMT+2 (Jerusalem Time) between Sun-Thu 10:00-19:00. > > > > I hope that in a soon will be more active profiles on > > https://www.debian.org/women/profiles/ > > > > > > So, What do you say ? > > Pros? > > Cons? > > > > >>> Your opinion is important to me, tell me what you think > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > Yehuda Korotkin > > > > <http://www.korotkin.co.il/> > > > > web www.korotkin.co.il > > > > mobile +972 (50) 414-6444 > > > > email yeh...@korotkin.co.il > ---end quoted text--- > > > Great that you are introducing your students to Debian! > > I'm not a big part of Debian aside from being a devoted user, but I'd > like to let you know about how Debian works in terms of > communications. > > Having a video conference like this is extremely unusual for the > Debian organization. Mostly the users and developers use email, irc > and other non-synchronous means for virtually all communication. Once > in a while, there is a conference and some Debian people will meet in > person. Mainly, the communications are not about introducing Debian - > the people communicating are already using Debian. There is very > little in the way of introductions/recruitment aside from the > web pages that describe Debian (www.debian.org and the wiki). > > I can see the value in making the introduction to the students more > interactive than the usual Debian communications though. A lot of > people, esp. young people today (everywhere), are just not interested > in typing to write programs or communicate. > > You have contacted a very good group in terms of getting a response > for talking to women (debian-women). > > In addition, there are some groups among Debian that support "events". > These people go to non-Debian conferences (that are willing to have > them) and promote Debian there. > > I think it might be worth sending an email to those lists (usually > called debian-events-???, like debian-events-na, etc). These people > are used to receiving requests similar to what you want and are > experienced in this kind of communication. Since you are willing to > do a video conference, then probably anyone anywhere in the world can > help you - they don't have to be in your region. It would help the > person who will be introducing Debian to know a bit about the > background of their audience. > > In terms of making the talk interesting to your students, these > groups can also get some items like stickers or t-shirts to sell > or give to the students. Normally they bring them to the event; > I'm not sure if it will be possible to ship stuff like that to > another country. Debian has pretty much no marketing budget. > > So I hope this helps! You can see a list of Debian mailing lists > here: > > https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe > > and here is the list of mailing lists with "events" in the name: > > debian-events-eu europe > debian-events-ha hispanic america > debian-events-na north america > debian-events-nl netherlands > > I see also the lists with "dug" in the name (Debian user group, > maybe) help to coordinate events in their regions: > > debian-dug-by Belarus > debian-dug-ie ireland > debian-dug-in india > debian-dug-mx mexico > debian-dug-quebec quebec > > You can also connect with the #debian irc chat on oftc. It would > be closer to the kind of communications that Debian users are > accustomed to. See https://www.debian.org/support and search for > "On-line Real Time Help Using IRC" for more info. > > However, that channel is not really for social chitchat or general > introductions. It is more for solving specific problems that you > might run into while installing or using Debian. You can get > almost-real-time help from there. So it might be useful while your > students are actually doing their install. > > > Does anyone else have anything to add? > > > So I hope I haven't misrepresented Debian ... I have copied this > email to debian-events-na where I know there are some people > who might respond. > > bjb > > -- Regards, Yehuda Korotkin <http://www.korotkin.co.il/> web www.korotkin.co.il mobile +972 (50) 414-6444 email yeh...@korotkin.co.il
