Invitation for webinar at STC - Ref: GNOME Docs presentation at the tcworld14 conference

[Radina Matic <radina matic gmail com>]

Hello!

Here in Spain we say "Las cosas de palacio van despacio", or "Palace wheels grind slowly"...

Exactly a year after the initial idea about the webinar after my presentation at tcworld14, I received an "official" invitation by Deborah Krat, STC Education Manager from Fairfax, VA. However, given that between my grad school, professional and family obligations, I haven't been active in the GNOME for quite a while, it would only seem fair to do it together with a more active docs team contributor. I believe the audience would definitely benefit more if they hear the experience of somebody who is actively working on GNOME documentation at this time.

The timeline for the webinar they gave me is January/February 2016, so it's not urgent, but they do need a written proposal (I'm attaching the required form). I would like to maintain the main argument of ​working on open docs as an excellent experience for techcomm students, but I'm certainly open to suggestions and new ideas. Any volunteers to present this webinar together? :)

Cheers,

Radina

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 STC Webinar Information Request.docx

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​PS: Previous version of this email is in cue for moderator approval because I​ attached a heavy file - just delete it!

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Radina Matic <radina matic gmail com> wrote:

Hi everybody!

I've been MIA of late, but I just wanted to share with you the news about the talk I gave last week about GNOME Documentation at the tcworld conference in Stuttgart (Germany).

The main idea for the talk was to present GNOME docs (and by extension, other

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open docs communities) as a great resource for the technical communication students. My other intention was to promote and present a different reality among mostly corporate techcomm professionals who usually attend this event (I kinda got tired of blank stares in previous years when I would mention GNOME ;). I originally planed to present the talk proposal for last year's edition, but then the family issues got in the way... Anyhow, the talk was accepted this year and it went fairly well: about 90% of around 50 attendees actually used Linux, but only a couple knew/used GNOME, I got some interesting questions and feedback after the talk, flyers and stickers I brought flew away, and at the networking event that same evening I got a proposal to prepare a version of the talk as a webinar for STC. I also played Bastian's promo videos and they added a very nice visual dimension to the presentation (btw Bastian, kudos for those, great stuff!).

I'm attaching the presentation slides (google drive and slideshare.net).

Cheers,

Radina

Presentation at Slideshare.net