On 13/03/13 at 08:03 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:54:44AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > > Ubuntu does https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek - a set of > > > seminars on IRC to teach Ubuntu development. I'm not sure of how useful > > > that is (I've never attended it) and if we should do it too. AFAIK we > > > don't do that inside Debian. But I thought it was worth mentioning. > > > > In Debian we mostly do continuous mentoring on all topics on the > > debian-mentors IRC channel and mailing list rather than specific > > sessions at specific times. > > Such things work great if you already know where to get started. If you > don't, it might be more difficult. I think it's a normal fact that some > people require a bit more handholding than others, at the beginning; but > that doesn't mean they're less capable. > > Having an IRC seminar with basic information on what to do seems like a > great way to get started, to me.
I'm not very up-to-date on the status of Free Software video-conferencing tools, but maybe that's something that could be done that way. Also, for packaging tutorials, we have slides already (hint hint) ;) Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130313075329.gb19...@xanadu.blop.info
