<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nathan Handler <<a href="mailto:nhandler@ubuntu.com">nhandler@ubuntu.com</a>> Date: 2010/8/19 Subject: [Ubuntu-Classroom] Ubuntu Classroom LoCo Day To: Ubuntu Classroom Management <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-classroom@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-classroom@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Cc: <a href="mailto:loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com">loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Hello everyone, A while ago, I had the idea to organize a one day classroom event where we try and get as many LoCo teams as possible to host sessions in as many languages as possible. The content of these sessions would not be as beneficial to the overall community (due to being in different languages), but it would help encourage LoCos to lead classroom sessions of their own as well as give users a chance to learn and ask questions in their native language. I talked to a few people about this idea, and their definitely appears to be some interest. There are still a few details that need to get sorted out: * When would be the best time to hold the event? Since the purpose of the event is to encourage LoCo teams to lead more classroom sessions, I don't think the point in the release cycle is as important as for an event like UDW or UOW. However, we would want to make sure that it doesn't fall on any holidays. * What should the sessions be about? One suggestion that I received concerning this point was to create a base presentation or just a base topic and then have each LoCo present it in their own language and answer questions from the audience about it. By going with the base presentation approach, everyone in the community (regardless of the language they speak) would be able to learn from the session. We could also allow LoCos to choose the topic of the session and then try and encourage them to translate the session to English on the wiki so other teams could learn from it. * How will we handle the actual running of #ubuntu-classroom the day of the event? Hopefully, by the day of the event, ClassBot will be translated into all of the languages that will get spoken and tested. It would also be possible to add an additional field to the ical that allows us to specify the locale that ClassBot should use on a per-session basis. That way, we wouldn't need to manually change the locale at the start of each session. For the instructor introductions, if we decide to have them, we could ask the instructors to introduce themselves. That way, they could get done in their native language. I am sure that there are other details that we will need to sort out, but these were just a few that I was able to think of while writing this email. Most of these details should not be too hard to sort out, and I think that the Classroom Management team could probably handle that. The tricky part will be getting LoCo teams involved. This will probably take a fair amount of time and require a lot of work (contacting people on IRC, sending emails, blogging, answering questions, etc). This is why I am CCing the LoCo Council on this email. They have been doing a great job of getting LoCo teams involved in various community projects over the past few months, and I think they would be a great help in doing the same thing for this event. I am interested in hearing what you all think about this idea. Thanks, Nathan Handler -- Ubuntu-classroom mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-classroom@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-classroom@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-classroom" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-classroom</a> </div> </div>