Fri, 15 Jun 2007
How do you explain Debian?
While I already have some experience in explaining this Debian thingy
to people, who are more or less familiar with Linux and free software, next
week I have a special job: Explain Debian -- and how free software projects
work -- to people, who aren't familiar with that.
It's a university course, which just learned the boring theory. Licence work, a bit of history, etc. A complete different audience than I used to speak to: So far all but one of my talks where with people who visited my talk because they were interested in the topic... some came even, just because they like my talks! I'm not yet sure, how to handle that.
Beside the difficult audience (which might be even more difficult, because
it's rather hot here), it might be further complicated by the techniques: It's
a kind of shared course, a cooperation of the University of Hildesheim and the
University of Saarland; slides are transmitted via vnc, audio and video are
transmitted in both ways via a software I haven't seen before; half of the
audience here half there... and if you ever visited one of my talks, you might
know, that I'm a walker
type of guy: I run around, gesticulate, point
things out on my slides, sometimes I even go right into the audience and talk
to people directly. And now I can't really do this, urg.
But all that's solvable, the main questions remains: How do you explain how Debian works, what Debian is, to people who just learned about the four freedoms?
I was asked to aus dem Nähkästchen plaudern
. That's a German idiom;
don't know how to translate that. In this case it means more or less that they
would like to hear stories, not see organigrams.
Well... so far my Idea is to reuse some of my old slides from an
old talk1 and add some nice examples, showing the see the
need, solve the problem
approach. Perhaps I'll use reportbug-ng and
debtags as examples.
If you have any ideas, better examples: Feel free to mail me. Would be perfect if I could get your ideas before Monday. Thanks.
1: Note to myself: I really need to sort my talks page out.
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