Yes, we are in agreement on all these points. Cool.<br><br>I was not aware of your involvement in related activities, though. Feel free to elaborate for those of us less in the know.<br><br>Thanks<br>CDR<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">M. Fioretti</b> <<a href="mailto:mfioretti@nexaima.net">mfioretti@nexaima.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Fri, August 24, 2007 4:57 pm, C David Rigby wrote:<br>> Seperately you (Marco) made the really good point that many newcomers face<br>> daunting social and communication challenges when trying to get involved
<br>> in FOSS through the usual channels.<br><br>Exactly. For the record, this is just the area where I have become more<br>involved lately, as some of you may (hopefully) have already heard:<br>establishing a new channel. Which, among other things, could also bring
<br>more<br>families and schools to RULE and friends :-)<br><br>> I think this is critical and the place that we can really make a<br>> difference.<br><br>I couldn't agree more. Let's just me stress (sorry, I know I'm obsessed
<br>about this...) that "really making a difference" means two equally<br>important things:<br><br>1) providing installers and docs which require the smallest possible<br> amount of geekiness and previous ICT skills to recycle an old PC
<br> for SOHO or study use (note that this, in and by itself, doesn't<br> stop at all what we could do from being also an excellent server<br> platform)<br><br>2) making sure that #1 above doesn't leave those users alone in a
<br> desert (distro without alive online community) or in unfriendly<br> places (distro for die-hard software experts). By this I mean<br> "publishing a Debian netinstall howto is a wonderful thing, let's<br>
not produce _only_ this kind of things if possible". In other words,<br> let's try to continue with installers for Fedora and/or Ubuntu? Others?<br><br>Ciao,<br> Marco<br><br>_______________________________________________
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