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"I believe that Fedora and Linux in general need to reach and inspire a wider set of users. Free software affords us so many benefits we should strive to share, but there's still a formidable bar in technical skill required to realize those benefits.

"What can we do to help expand the reach of free software? One way is to teach! I've taught free software to kids and it was an amazing experience (and I have another Red Hat-sponsored project involving teaching kids how to use free software in the works that I'm excited to talk about in detail soon!) Although interacting with a group of kids or adults in person and teaching them about what free software can do is vitally important, I am afraid it's not entirely scalable. It's also entirely bending the user to the software itself, without at all bending the software towards the user. "Yeah, it works a little weird there, here's a clunky workflow for getting around that" is the sort of phrase I end up using a lot of times while teaching others how to use free software."

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