[akademy-participant] Fwd: suggestions for next year event

[AnneWilson]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 19:11:57 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote:
> ...
>
> > Dare I suggest this, but perhaps this proposed second, non-tech track
> > might be a great place to collaborate with the Gnome community...
> > talks like "why your significant other cares about open source", or
> > "how non techies can help" seem like good opportunities to bridge the
> > project gap and work together.
>
> I think ideally there should be opportunities so they can directly
> contribute right there, e.g. doing usability tests, hands-on introduction
> to
> translating, introducing the promo team etc.
>
Good idea.

I'd also like to see a session of fun things for the totally un-tech user to 
do in linux.  Try to give some motivation to the faint-of-heart :-)  There 
are plenty of cool things that don't need a tech background to use the apps.

Anne
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