Re: Invitation for webinar at STC - Ref: GNOME Docs presentation at the tcworld14 conference

On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 20:04 +0100, Radina Matic wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Here in Spain we say "Las cosas de palacio van despacio", or "Palace
> wheels grind slowly"...
> 
> Exactly a year after the initial idea about the webinar after my
> presentation at tcworld14, I received an "official" invitation by
> Deborah Krat, STC Education Manager from Fairfax, VA. However, given
> that between my grad school, professional and family obligations, I
> haven't been active in the GNOME for quite a while, it would only
> seem fair to do it together with a more active docs team contributor.
> I believe the audience would definitely benefit more if they hear the
> experience of somebody who is actively working on GNOME documentation
> at this time. 

I can do this if nobody else wants to. I let my STC membership lapse,
though. I just wasn't getting anything out of it. Is that a problem?

> The timeline for the webinar they gave me is January/February 2016,
> so it's not urgent, but they do need a written proposal (I'm
> attaching the required form). I would like to maintain the main
> argument of working on open docs as an excellent experience for
> techcomm students, but I'm certainly open to suggestions and new
> ideas. Any volunteers to present this webinar together? :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Radina
> 
> 
>  STC Webinar Information Request.docx
> 
> PS: Previous version of this email is in cue for moderator approval
> because I attached a heavy file - just delete it!
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Radina Matic <[email protected]
> > wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> > 
> > I've been MIA of late, but I just wanted to share with you the news
> > about the talk I gave last week about GNOME Documentation at the
> > tcworld conference in Stuttgart (Germany). 
> > 
> > The main idea for the talk was to present GNOME docs (and by
> > extension, other open docs communities) as a great resource for
> > the technical communication students. My other intention was to
> > promote and present a different reality among mostly corporate
> > techcomm professionals who usually attend this event (I kinda got
> > tired of blank stares in previous years when I would mention GNOME
> > ;). I originally planed to present the talk proposal for last
> > year's edition, but then the family issues got in the way...
> > Anyhow, the talk was accepted this year and it went fairly well:
> > about 90% of around 50 attendees actually used Linux, but only a
> > couple knew/used GNOME, I got some interesting questions and
> > feedback after the talk, flyers and stickers I brought flew away,
> > and at the networking event that same evening I got a proposal to
> > prepare a version of the talk as a webinar for STC. I also played
> > Bastian's promo videos and they added a very nice visual dimension
> > to the presentation (btw Bastian, kudos for those, great stuff!).
> > 
> > I'm attaching the presentation slides (google drive and
> > slideshare.net).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Radina
> > 
> > Presentation at Slideshare.net
> > 
> > 
> 
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