Ideas about local community involvement
a project by vsvecova
Updated over 6 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️.

The plan is to gather ideas about how SUSE can become a more integral part of the local tech community scene (in PRG, NUE, or other locations). As a person who has been involved in educating women about tech for some time, I am thinking of introductory workshops and meetups, aimed not necessarily only at female audience.

The output of this project should be a document with suggested activities, including:

  • what resources will be necessary to achieve the related goals
  • who the targeted groups are and how we can reach them
  • what will be the benefits for both the community and the company etc.

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community education

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Hack Week 15

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    • vsvecova
      almost 9 years ago by vsvecova | Reply

      Progress update:

      • Drafted a tentative (rough) outline of introductory Linux workshop https://etherpad.nue.suse.com/p/LinuxBeginnersCourse_Outline
      • Drafted a list of potential community activities which still needs to be expanded with more details https://etherpad.nue.suse.com/p/Communityinvolvementideas

      To do:

      • Continue working on this project in my free time
      • Extend and add details to proposed community activities
      • When done, send the list to Doug, Chris and Petr to discuss the ideas
      • Start organizing!

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