...Clickbait.. yeah I know I am the worst..

Anyway, yesterday Richard Stallman gave a conference very close to my city, in fact in the same University I studied.

His conference was very good, funny and entertained, lots of students listened to him. You know his talks so I won't say more about it.

So to the IMPORTANT stuff, when conference was over RMS asked to go to a place to eat, and I asked to go with him too.

We ended on a restaurant, my father, one of the teachers/organizers who, was pretty cool but didn't know about Free Software until a day ago, RMS and me.

So I told RMS how now I use Parabola and how sometimes I recommended in this forum to use Parabola instead of Trisquel to a few users who seem desperate for new software:

He asked me to not do that: "If they have trouble, don't say to them 'go somewhere else', help them."

-But Parabola is fsf approved too, i said, "I know but that's not a good answer for a problem, help them".

Now I think he did not mean to not recommend Parabola at all, more like we should just help Trisquel instead of suggest users to move on to Parabola or something different.

I then said that I also try to defend Trisquel, more than once I've said that Trisqule 7 is NOT obsolete, it is still free software, and that we should keep in mind Trisquel is about Freedom not about new software. And we should wait for Trisquel 8 to be ready...

He looked at me and said...

"I want Trisquel 8 too.."

I was shocked. Here I am with the father of Free Software, the Saint iGNUcious himself, and he is telling me he wants Trisquel 8 too...

Now before you go on a Rant on your keyboards keep reading...

I don't remember exactly what he said after that. I said something about Ruben been busy and that I wish I could help but I did not know how..

He told me that I should help Trisquel 8, I said something like "But I don't know how, I am learning to package stuff for Parabola or Guix, but Trisquel I don't know".

It came to my mind the fact that there are a lot of Parabola or Guix hackers who had taught me and had been very patient with me.

He said something like it should not be too hard, Parabola uses Debian packages, so helping Parabola is learning to package stuff for Debian, removing non-free dependencies and building the package on Trisquel. (Something like that, blame my ignorance and not RMS if something is wrong with that sentence).

He agreed with all of you who said that we need Trisquel 8 and all that, because new comers need Trisquel. But he also told me that I can help others.

We talked about more stuff, but I don't want to bother you with that. I came back to my city after that, during the 3 hours trip back home I thought about Trisquel. I wanna help, so I learned a little bit in the morning. Today I will read as much as I can on how to help. I will try to learn as much as I can.

I know Trisquel 8 is too late already, but Ubuntu 18.04 is close, maybe if I learn enough during the next few months I can help a lot to Trisquel 9 happen sooner than later.

I have a lot of free time so I can use a few daily hours to learn and help. I want to ask you to point me on the right direction, what should I read, what should I learn. Please send me all that you can even if I need to learn on Debian or Ubuntu documentation. Or learn Bash or anything.

I know a little bit so I am not complete beginner, but treat me as the must dumb beginner you ever met. And I promise I will try to be useful, who knows maybe I'll fail, but I want to give it a try...

Let me know if you want more details about my talk with RMS or a picture for proof.