Hello all Here are some comments from PCPA about FISL, where our brazilian team was working last days. People do get interested, but they need guidance: how exactly they can contribute.
Best Kate I believe it was overall very good, and we are now somewhat known at least in FISL circles. There was significant talk with teachers and students. While my main area of knowledge is technical, I would like to say that we need some work on the wiki, and then translate to pt_BR and other languages, with a proper description of all steps in how to provide bug reports, how to become a contributor, that can be from a comunity person to a packager to a kernel developer. An interesting sugestion from someone that does so in Ubuntu is to have a facebook page where people triage bugs, or report how to correct problems, etc. Well, to get docs written we probably need people actually assigned to it at start, once things start working and we have an "skeleton", it should just flow. Overall, our major "enemy" is UEFI, but then, those were the only computers that people would bring to us, to attempt to get our help in installing, usually dual boot with windows, and with bioses that either do not support disabling secure boot or do not have legacy boot support.
