Hi again El 26/03/17 a las 18:05, Chris Lamb escribió: > Dear Martin, > >> In what ways do you see Debian itself being a bit of the rust on the >> cogwheels making organisation harder? > > Could you elaborate on what you mean here? I wouldn't want to misinterpret > your query and slander Debian unnecessarily — after all, a gentleman is > defined as someone who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally… > > >> What could be done from the side of the project to >> improve/facilitate the organisation of meetups? > > I think there are lots of ways we could improve the meetup process. > > Publishing a battle-hardened "HOWTO" to run a BSP would be one angle I > would look into — many people simply feel that organising such meetups > is beyond them or they simply become overwhelmed at the start of > thinking about it. > > I'm not claiming that organising a meetup is straightforward or > diminishing the effort and stress involved, but the more unknowns that > are removed from the process the more likely we are to see grassroots > volunteer efforts. > > Highlighting that there is a benefit to a meetup, however small, would be > a part of this too as many DDs might only have interacted with DebConf, > an enterprise clearly orders of magnitude above the typical BSP. > > Even promoting fortnightly social meetups that are more — how can I put > it? — "IPA" than "ITP" would be really beneficial to the project.
What do IPA and ITP mean in this context? Thanks -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona