[commops] Re: [Fedora-join] Idea: Fedora Contributor Classrooms

[Zach Villers]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 04:57:37PM -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote:
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>  =                           Quick Summary                            =
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>  1) Online university meets contributing to Fedora (kind of)
>  2) Join process: Move from wiki to more modern + centralized "course"
>  3) Improve process to jumpstart new contributors
>  4) Four main questions to answer
>  5) Opinions / thoughts very welcome *
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>  * Longer email, but worth the read!
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>  Hello all,
>  
>  This idea originates from a discussion Gabri (mailga) and I had in 
>  #fedora-join today.
>  
>  Gabri pointed out the availability of a variety of different "online 
>  classroom" type of applications or websites. They're pretty commons 
>  nowadays, with things like Udemy or Coursera being used to let people 
>  take full-fledged courses in any subject they want (sometimes at a cost, 
>  sometimes not).
>  
>  The article that started this discussion can be found here:
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> http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/02/seven-free-platforms-for-teachin...
>  
>  The needs for something like this would be as follows:
>  1) Create a series of "lessons" for newcomers to follow in order to be 
>  "ready" to contribute to what interests them
>  2) Courses / lessons easy to update and keep current with the fast-paced 
>  speed of Fedora
>  
>  Gabri also linked this article which may of use of finding a platform we 
>  like, should this be something we are interested in:
>  
>       http://blog.capterra.com/top-8-freeopen-source-lmss/
>  
>  However, to the point - now what? There's a few questions I think we 
>  need to answer?
>  
>  
>  
>     1) Is this something we think would be useful to pursue? 
I definately think so.
>  
>     2) If so, what is the scope we want to pursue? Start small and see if 
>  it works well, then try a wider adoption?
>  
>     3) Is this something we would have as a long-term goal for 2016 for 
>  every subgroup to try to adopt (with the assistance of CommOps)? 
Would be willing to participate in a meeting to discuss.
>  
>     4) Are there any downsides that stand out by trying to pursue an 
>  online "contributor classroom" sort of style versus using the wiki?
>  
>  
>  
>  I think these are the core questions we need to answer to move forward. 
>  This may be an interesting discussion topic for a meeting if there is 
>  support for the idea.
>  
>  And Gabri, feel free to chime in and add anything in case I missed 
>  something. :)
>  
>  Interested to hear your thoughts!
>  
>  -- 
>  Cheers,
>  Justin W. Flory
>  jflory7(a)gmail.com
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