Marc Haber <mh+debconf-discuss@zugschlus.de> writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 07:12:49PM +0200, Alex wrote: >>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? > > 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 seems a bit defeatest to me. If there's not already a local linux group in Brest, then perhaps we just need to make sure that everyone who's machine we install gets a list of resources that might put them in touch with help, and each other. e.g.: https://wiki.debian.org/fr/FrenchLists https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/2025/06/threads.html As long as they have the chance to discover other people in the same state of helplessness in Brest, they might then be tempted to get together and sympathise about the sorry state of their laptops. Hey Presto! A local Debian/Linux user group :-) Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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