Re: Ada Lovelace Day 2012

On Monday 23 July 2012 13:01:25 C. Boemann wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2012 12:11:32 Camila Ayres wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Ada Lovelace day is gonna be at October 16th this year, so might be a
> > good idea to start to prepare ourselves for it.
> > 
> > - We need ideas for a shortish and easy tutorial that ends up in
> > something working and running, or for example, a piece of text
> > translated somewhere (@Aracele!!).
> > - Have in mind that people have to know in advance what they need to 
have
> > installed, prepared in their computer to follow the tutorial.
> > - Also, one day in advance, have a help session for people to get their
> > system set up.
> > - What do you prefer: do it through IRC or Google Hangout?
> > - Depending on how much people will be able to do the tutorial, we could
> > spread out over 1 week.
> > 
> > Lydia and I made a list with some names that we thought could be willing
> > to do one tutorial - that's why you are receiving this e-mail :) If you
> > know someone else that could be included and if you have any differents
> > ideas for Ada Lovelace Day, please let us know.
> > 
> > Let's help other to get involved in KDE!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > ----
> > Camila Ayres
> > camilasan.com
> 
> Hi. Good thinking.
> 
> I'd just make two additional points:
> 
> 1) irc is preferred especially if we can find a web link somewhere so they
> don't _have_ to install an irc client, but can just use a browser.
To answer my own question:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=kde-women

would make it easy for anyone to join irc


> 2) Having people accomplish a real task, which the community appreciate,
> makes for a better experience, and makes it more likely they will actually
> stay. So it would probably be a good idea to start thinking about real
> tasks that attendants can accomplish.
> 
> And bonus points if we can make this a group task where all attendants
> (incl us) already form a sub-community and ending the day/week with some
> real product. This way we also show this important and cool side of
> foss/kde. It will require some more pre-planning from our side, but I
> think it will be worth it.
> 
> Camilla Boemann
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