Paper: Campaign for IT literacy through FOSS and Spoken Tutorials (Kannan Moudgalya)

This is the first draft and will be edited a little more over the next week.
No, the beginner should validate the script "before" the tutorial is 
created.

On 03/07/14 2:50 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:
>
> In papers/kannan_moudgalya/main.rst:
>
> > +-  It is already answered, check the archives first
> > +
> > +-  Read the instruction manual first before asking a question, etc.
> > +
> > +The reasons for the response given by the experts are understandable:
> > +there are only a few experts to answer the questions of large numbers of
> > +beginners, many of which may be repetitive. If the experts spend all
> > +their time in answering often repetitive questions, when will they have
> > +time to do their own work, develop the FOSS, remove bugs, write
> > +documents, etc., seem to be valid questions. Nevertheless, we can
> > +confidently say that only a small fraction of FOSS exploring/loving
> > +beginners stay with FOSS because of the above mentioned scoldings and
> > +the support structure. The system we have built is beginner friendly,
> > +with enthusiastic participation from the experts.
> > +
> > +When we started the project in 2009, we decided to make our project a
>
> Just to be clear on the process:
>
>   * Instructor creates scripts and data for tutorial
>   * Instructor creates tutorial
>   * Selected novice tries scripts and data when running the tutorial
>     and feeds back to instructor
>
> So it's like basic pilot testing of the material before going live?
>
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