Hi,
I think that Debian Academy should host anything related to Debian; not only about developing Debian, but also about how to use Debian. The students that participate in courses about how to use Debian, may also discover that there are also courses about how to develop Debian, and may decide to learn more about it. So I don't see why there should be some restrictions in this regard. I could understand the restrictions if the resources were limited and only a few courses could be supported, but it doesn't seem that this is the case.
Also, in my opinion, live (interactive) courses are better than courses that only contain some resources to be studied by the student himself (which is not much different from documentation). But I don't think that we should be restrictive in the types of courses that are accepted. Any type of course that might be useful to some students should be Ok.
Kind regards,Dashamir
I agree with Dashamir. Course topics should not be limited. I
don't think we need to worry about having too many courses. Course
creators are volunteers and, at least in the beginning, they must
have free choice of topic. If course creators will be happy with
the platform we can then hope they will join us developing courses
on Debian development. What we can do is to use Moodle's options
to highlight the courses we deem are the 'important' ones, and
prioritise our work/support on these.
I don't agree though with the notion about live courses being the
better ones. First it all depends on the execution. Second thing
to consider is the intended audience. We are making courses for a
global audience scatterer around 24 time zones. Some of them have
jobs, are in school, have families to take care of,...
I'm not against live courses. If the course creator is willing to
execute them, great! Myself I'm planning to focus on developing
asynchronous courses and building a 'community of practice' around
them.
Regards,
Mitja