Jonathan Sandoval <cloudneoz...@gmail.com> writes: > Techela-emacs was a nice discovery and I'll surely give it a try. But, I > think it wouldn't be a good fit for our use case. > > I think my message lacked some context. We're not a formal educational > institution. We're a community initiative. In an old house there was an > outdated healt post. Because of new regulations, it was too expensive > for the community to keep on mantaining that place, and there were other > options for them. It wasn't like that in the 90s when it was created. > > So, the community decided to transform the place in a cultural house. A > couple of years ago we started to teach contemporary dance because a > volunteer teacher appeared. Then, other teacher approached to teach > colombian salsa, and then other teacher offered himself to teach guitar > and so on. > > We now have spaces for dance, teather, guitar, a library, and some > computers were donated recently. I proposed them to use free software, > and talked to them about it and they agreed. I choose Trisquel and was > in the process. I started my own project too; a science club with kids. > > Because of COVID-19, our activites halted. As I mentioned, the people of > the cultural house are a mix of academics from univerties, but common > people without formal education and not much knowledge on computing. We > have a teacher of agroecology who is knowleadgeable about that topic, > but not much in computers. > > I taught them to use Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton. It was not > easy. Jitsi was a little simpler, but not everyone could use BBB. I > suspect the reason is an old cellphone, but the preventive isolation > does not allow me to really diagnose the problem. It's an example. Other > guys have really slow computers and most of them have Windows. We're > just beginning with free software and I haven't had the opportunity to > make an installation festival. And other problems have arisen. > > So, expecting them to learn emacs, in Windows and Git does not sound > like a very good idea. For them, accesing a site with their browsers is > more natural, because all of them at least have an e-mail account. I > doubt 30 minutes are enough for learning emacs (I recently tried to show > the basics to a friend who's a programmer and is used to VSCode and he > seemed really confused and kind of gave up). > > The other reasons is that our focus are not assignments. We want to > create educational resources for our classes. > > Thanks again for your suggestions and ideas.
Thank you for such a beatiful story. Nevertheless, I guess that you do not believe me that Emacs can be made very easy to learn by adding buttons to it. Maybe I will learn to add them and show you a snapshot. I am not sure if I will have time, though. I am sorry if I might not make it. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss