Debian Academy BoF DebConf 22
https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/105-debian-academy-bof/

## Description
-The Debian Academy team aims to define and run an official Debian e-learning platform to create courses focused on Debian Development topics for those who want to learn how to help as a contributor, maintainer or developer in a social or technical way directly to the Debian Project with multimedia resources beyond traditional written documentation.

## Goals
-To have a full and official Debian e-learning platform for the Debian Project to create courses on getting involved directly in the Debian Community, to teach about how to help in the development of Debian in different teams and activities like Debian Packaging, Debian tools used for communication within the community (IRC, Mailing Lists), Reproducible Builds, Translations, Video Team, Salsa GitLab, Web, Publicity, Debian Live, Infrastructure and any Debian Development related topic, taking advantage of some existent E-Learning Free Software projects to attract and facilitate to current Debian users interested in being Debian collaborators and developers with something more than written documentation, using video explanations, creating structured and updated courses about some specific topic, having an index by field, virtual environments to work, examples, exercises and interaction with the instructors, who could be Debian users, collaborators, maintainers or developers who enjoy teaching others.
-To transform or to create some Debian documentation into a Moodle or an edX course format.

## Target groups
Debian users who are curious about how things are all made, who want to look behind the curtain in a nice way and probably find out how they could be part of the game themselves.

## Resources
-Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcademy
-Mailing list
debian-academy@lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-academy/
-IRC
#debian-academy on oftc
-Salsa repository
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianacademy-team
-Documentation
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianacademy-team/-/wikis/Creating-a-course-in-Debian-Academy
-Storm pad
https://storm.debian.net/shared/jvdrY9rsw8SIF9FcgDtHxZsBWZHGJWh2xLIZqa3Wj1j
-DebConf 20 talk
http://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2020/DebConf20/30-debian-academy-another-way-to-share-knowlegde-about-debian.webm

Project current status
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-Paused

Present in the BoF (please write your name):
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-Jonathan Bustillos / Jathan
-Amra
-Mark Pearson
-Dashamir Hoxha
-Jeremy Bicha
-Mark / markbil
-Carlos Saltos

What this discussion is about
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-To analyse and share perspectives to retake Debian Academy work

Things needed to do
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-

Things done
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-First effort of Debian Academy E-Learning Platform using a Moodle instance running on a Debian server.
-Wiki page
-Salsa repository
-Mailing list
-IRC channel
-Sandstorm page

Possible resources and technical tools to use
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-Debian net infra to host Debian Developers projects
-eDX software
https://www.edx.org/

Identified issues and potential solutions
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-Teachers
-Attraction of students

Volunteers needed for
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-Teaching
-Infrastructure

Volunteers
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-

Notes and proposals
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-To record sessions besides having interactive courses and upload them to Debian Peertube
-Get people with skills in different areas
-Start a central repository/list of topics that newcomers/potential debian contributors want and/or need to learn.
-Packaging work being Debian Developer is a lot
-Plan for training sessions during DebConfs