Re: Q to both: facilitating meetups
Hi again
El 26/03/17 a las 18:05, Chris Lamb escribió:
> Dear Martin,
>
>> In what ways do you see Debian itself being a bit of the rust on the
>> cogwheels making organisation harder?
>
> Could you elaborate on what you mean here? I wouldn't want to misinterpret
> your query and slander Debian unnecessarily — after all, a gentleman is
> defined as someone who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally…
>
>
>> What could be done from the side of the project to
>> improve/facilitate the organisation of meetups?
>
> I think there are lots of ways we could improve the meetup process.
>
> Publishing a battle-hardened "HOWTO" to run a BSP would be one angle I
> would look into — many people simply feel that organising such meetups
> is beyond them or they simply become overwhelmed at the start of
> thinking about it.
>
> I'm not claiming that organising a meetup is straightforward or
> diminishing the effort and stress involved, but the more unknowns that
> are removed from the process the more likely we are to see grassroots
> volunteer efforts.
>
> Highlighting that there is a benefit to a meetup, however small, would be
> a part of this too as many DDs might only have interacted with DebConf,
> an enterprise clearly orders of magnitude above the typical BSP.
>
> Even promoting fortnightly social meetups that are more — how can I put
> it? — "IPA" than "ITP" would be really beneficial to the project.
What do IPA and ITP mean in this context?
Thanks
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Laura Arjona Reina
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