Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 23:46:59 +0000 From: Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFD: proposed new (likely virtual) category, education Message-ID: <1a3c2022bfdeaf0cfe27849c6dbf9450@gundo.com> In-Reply-To: <90bc2852-1aac-3c80-e502-e21c29355139@gmail.com> References: <342ff706e1eb34f7283e24107fd03ded@gundo.com> <91dc3ebd-56a4-5779-84d1-09ae7a820791@heuristicsystems.com.au> <6cab9a5f37fdd3df47252165cb2b19fa@gundo.com> <adc23bd4-1b26-db0b-3f2e-0770f8756888@gmail.com> <9fbe1a5e070d76e2cc581321c21bb608@gundo.com> <90bc2852-1aac-3c80-e502-e21c29355139@gmail.com>
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On 2020-07-18 18:35, Don Wilde wrote: > On 7/18/20 11:16 AM, Pau Amma wrote: >> On 2020-07-18 15:41, Don Wilde wrote: >>> I, too, love the idea. I would suggest that a sub-category of >>> "suggested learning path" programs might be an asset as well, >>> including useful languages to examine. >> >> Can you give me examples of which ports would go into that 4th >> subcategory? > None, yet, that I've looked at. I haven't, and making the category > itself is an inducement to examine the ports we have. *nod* >>> We might also consider >>> resurrecting Knuth's code+language concepts and tools. >> >> I'd wait until that category gets off the ground to consider that. > > Yes, that is a longer-term goal. *nod* >>> Assuming this category is accepted, I would then suggest an >>> announcement post to the FreeBSD-advocacy@ and FreeBSD-women@ lists, >>> and perhaps notification to the KDE and EduBuntu core lists. :D >> >> I'm not sure why FreeBSD-women. Can you elaborate? > FreeBSD-women is the advocacy list that specifically targets > "marketing" FreeBSD to women. Not to say that men _don't_ care about > education -- I do -- but women are more inclined to view it as > life-changing for themselves and their children and thus more of a > priority. We're getting off-topic here, so I'll just say that I'm unsure about doing that until and unless I know more about that list's culture and participants. I don't want to go into any women's space uninvited by a regular.
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