Ideas for next party (release or otherwise)
Add a security spin or design spin showcase
- Security spin:
Seeing as it's an IT concentration, use the security spin and maybe
few VMs to showcase how to test compliance with various benchmarks, best
practices, passphrase dice even (if possible), passcards (usign gpg even)
For the passcards, use a gpg key generation/signing party to
teach the uses and best practices of signing
code/binary/messages/hosting encrypted password files ( or sharing as
such between colleagues). Then have them take a file say a resume or
research paper and run gpg2 -e -a -u 0xKEYID ~/file to get an armored
.asc to use for passwords/passphrases or salts/hashes etc for
padding/hardening.
Wireless/wired monitoring showcase, we all know some regions are
notorious for less than ideal connects and censorship, show how tools
built into Fedora, namely curated in the security spin (dnf install
@security-lab for non security spins, to bootstrap) for ways to detect
or create own friendly networks for lan parties and the like. Also as a
tangent use this to show how to harden a blog or webserver against
attacks using a VM or other system and attacking with common vectors
with tools in Fedora.
-- Design spin:
Showcase gimp, showing how it can be used to replace photoshop and
in many cases be more featured and functional.
Show how 3D printing or designs can easily be drafted in the tools
in Design spin and then imported ( largely untouched) into 3D modeling
/printing suites ( most also available in Fedora,Rpmfusion,COPR).
Just a few stub ideas for anyone for their next event or party.
On 7/31/17 9:01 AM, buergermeister(a)karl-tux-stadt.de wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the late answer but I was a bit busy last week.
Am 25.07.2017 um 05:17 schrieb Brian Exelbierd:
> Sirko (and everyone),
>
> I've been reading your multi-part series on how you're doing the F26
> release party in Phnom Penh.
>
> I think this is a fantastic idea. I like that you are working directly
> with lots of future members of the IT working groups in Cambodia and
> likely future contributors. I really appreciate how using Fedora as a
> base has let you talk about all kinds of technology and firmly introduce
> it. Students are a hard audience, and it seems like you've found a
> great low-resource high energy way to engage them. This is awesome.
> Keep your posts coming.
>
> I think these kind of release parties create an opportunity for existing
> contributors and ambassadors to really bond with potential community
> members. Many of our activities don't seem to have obvious followup. I
> would be surprised if there isn't clear followup by Sirko here as he
> will obviously have invested a lot of time and made friends (by showing
> off freedom, features and first). What other ideas could we do like
> this in your region?
yes there was a lot of time investment, the organizing of it started
last year in May/June as I was first time at PNC for discussing their
curriculum. The curriculum was changed since then, e.g. is now CENTOS
used for teaching Linux basics instead of SLES. We had several
meetups, what I in my Fedora role could do to support PNC in their
process to get the students ready for their later role.
There will be another more Fedora oriented workshop, where we talk
more about Fedora itself. The students know already the relationship
Fedora has to CENTOS and looking forward to it. But so far the
"Release Party" part is not finished yet. I still have to write a post
about the Saturday and there are follow ups, every student did get a
questionaire where I have received right now 28/50 after we received
all and evaluated them, I will have another meeting with John Munger
as head of PNC and Benoit Pitet to make an judgement, if we will do
this in future again and where we been good with and where we can do
better. So far we have a good feeling, as we made a short round after
the party itself. There is another positive outcome, PN has not just a
branch in Cambodia they have also one in Da Nang/Viet Nam and
Cebu/Philippines so we might do it there in the future to, but lets see.
So it was highly time consuming what I did (and still havent finished
yet) but here are all things more time consuming as in Europe or America.
If you want to help the region, then tell some first of all to realize
the geographical size of it. They shall take an old atlas and cut out
the Philippines and put it over Europe and the same they can do with
Indonesia and put it over US. Maybe then they realize a bit of the
dimensions and time zone problem we have here and stop to think its
totally easy here to organize ONLINE IRC MEETINGS. Not speaking that
even a rich country like Singapore has sometimes electricity problems ;)
Time is the biggest issue here, everything costs a lot of time and you
have also lesser time. Brian I told you back at FUDCon, Asia would
need an Impact by itself. The people have lesser time here to organize
things but they are willing to contribute and participate. I remember
a discussion with Jeroen and Tuan about motivation of Asians, Tuan and
I did not agree that they have to be motivated, they do everything
with a lot of passion but organizing things they have a problem with,
they lack on expierience for doing it and the time to do it. So the
job for this Impact is to organize with the help of the locals, local
events. We have also get rid of the thinking that they will be the
same kind of contributors as we currently have in other parts of the
world. Here we will have more an amount of people that will join an
hackfest or sprint. Forget about any idea to that ONLINE, it will not
work. Why question yourself, why I never did hear from Yekleang Dy,
did she really start with the Web Team? The answer is no, why she
doesnt know what IRC is, not what is SSH and and and.... They have a
problem to learn such things by themself, they need somebody next to
them with an idea, what it is. Therefore you do here better FAD,
hackfests and sprints or do you expect me to go to each potential
contributor and do it personally? Can do that, send me a cheque for my
living costs ;)
But first of all this region needs more attention at all and a
changing in thinking of some people. I give you an example, your
budget changes created a lot of uncertainty here in APAC what leads to
that no money is spent and the activity of all here broke down. So
when in future the council or FPL wants to make changes in the
budgeting or similar things, come up with a clear plan and not say, we
will tell you later.....
Here its anyway more complicated to do things strategically and plan
events long ahead, thats why APAC always has the problem spending his
budget as planned. If you did read my post I already complained about
it. You really commit here sometimes a lot of time in an event and
then it doesnt happen and of course Asian dont blog about that, only
success stories ;) We will not change that, they seeing that as a
failure and telling that in public means they loose their face.
There are ideas for more events, also in the region and not just
local, but in the current atmosphere Fedora is in, I will not do.
br gnokii
> If you haven't read it, read it now:
>
http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=4958
>
> regards,
>
> bex
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