Re: Debian Install workshop in Brest
>>Now, I was thinking maybe Debconf would be a good opportunity to have
>>Debian contributors (e.g. those maintaining the installer but not only
>>them) help newcomers install Debian on their machines. Has anyone
>>thought in this direction already?
> Sounds like a good idea -and I'd be happy to help - but we would need
> to make it VERY clear that we weren't accepting responsibility for data
> loss, damage etc.
Yes, absolutely.
As the FSFE local group in Zurich we('re going to) use the following
waiver for our Linux install events:
https://paste.sr.ht/~puer-robustus/df8f32b108fa5eb5b9a03fc19ec58968a12eaf66
(we have a proper git repo on git.fsfe.org but that service is currently
being DDoSed/scraped...)
> I am not sure whether it is a good idea to help persons from Brest to
> install Debian on their machine and then travel back to far far away
> leaving the person without help. And they ARE going to need help, since
> Linux is an entirely different thing from Windows.
>
> I think that it would be a better idea to have local people supported by
> local people. I do hope that Brest does have a reasonably active Linux
> User Group that could do local support. Brest Metropole has a quarter of
> a million inhabitants, I hope that they have a Linux community.
This is a valid point. To address this problem I was hoping to
collaborate with a [local hackerspace][1] or a local LUG. This would
have the additional benefit that we might be able to use their premises
as the DebConf venue is somewhat outside Brest proper.
[1]: https://wiki.mdl29.net/doku.php?id=start
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find neither [events][2] nor [places][3]
for Linux installs/support in Brest on endof10.org as of today.
[2]: https://endof10.org/events/
[3]: https://endof10.org/places/
Reply to: