Re: [Debian-NYC] Bug squashing party feedback
I have an anecdote from a co-worker this morning. Pete, who was around
on Friday night for the beginners workshop was skeptical at first. But
this morning he told me he sat down for a few minutes and realized
that this is it, this is the "free softwaring" he's been missing and
he was compelled to tell me that he "got it" after that.
Unfortunately free softwaring is a good gerund and I'm in a bit of a
conflict to replace it with something more active. Candidates:
"to do software freedom"
"to use free software"
"use debian"
Of course this goes down the slope of
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict
but that's a digression.
I think semantics are important and "open source" is tasting really
stale in 2010.
-lee
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:
>
> I think it went well, and I had fun. Plus I had some very productive
> conversations that probably would have taken weeks via email. I only
> wish I could have been around more. Like this weekend, I have nothing
> to do... c'est la vie.
>
> One possible thing that could be a nice addition is having a more
> newbie friendly section. Or really just have a table for newbies to
> hang out and do installs, try building things from source, etc. There
> is the danger of it becoming a distraction from the bug squashing, but
> I think it could make for a since atmosphere to have lots of people
> around free softwaring.
>
> .hc
>
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Richard Darst wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is the bug squashing party feedback thread. Please give comments
>> and suggestions as to how things could be improved in the future.
>>
>> If you want a starting point for commenting, I see three main
>> categories of things: the tutorial parts on Friday/Saturday, the
>> squashing parts Saturday/Sunday, and how they fit together.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Richard
>>
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