[Gllug] Workshop at the next GLLUG meeting.

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Murphy [mailto:SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk]
> 
> I need help from you lot in making the best use of this facility.
> 
> The room has 20 or PC's with removable hard drives, networked 
> in a closed 
> system.  The uni will even provide us with some drives that we can 
> preconfigure in advance and lock away on site.
> 
> What uses can we put this to?  What can we show in a practicle?
> 
> I have a thought that setting up and using Samba might be a 
> simple and 
> useful venture.  If so, any volunteers to help set it up?

What is the most common things people ask questions about (not including X
and install problems). I personally think that mail and its retrieval from
an ISP would be a good topic if taken from a newbie perspective. Most people
new to Linux want on the internet and getting their mail as soon as feasibly
possible. This spawns several topics in itself that could be taught in any
number of ways. These topics could be broke up into more than one lecture
ie.

Awareness discussions.
Hardware issues.
Options for internet connectivity
Internet connection and its implications (Security etc).

Hands On
Installation
Set-up
Mail management basics
Tightening Linux basics
Xinetd
init.d and the various runlevels (I wish someone had shown me this when I
started as I think it is a key component to understanding how this animal
works.)

Who is the audience the workshops will be aimed at. If the only people who
are attending are 10 Year sys admins then the above is probably no use. Are
there enough baby newbies on the list interested or have the majority of us
stopped sucking electronic eggs thrown from the list. 

<Pie in the Sky, dreaming again>
Has anyone thrown in the idea of setting up a progressional training regime
(sounds very militant). It would be nice if there was a standard set of
workshops or talks that could be done when demand is large enough and they
would also evolve over time allowing anyone to take them as long as any
notes or issues where recorded. We could have various courses consisting of
several lectures aimed at certain parts of Linux. For instance.

Beginners Pack
Hardware I
Distributions I
Set-up I
Shell I
Internet I
Security I

Novice
Network I
Runlevels I
X windows I
Internet II
Shell II
Security II


User
Network II
Runlevels II
X windows II
Shell III
Security III

You get my gist.
 
There are is a multitude of books out there that you could base the courses
on They do not need to be terribly fancy but if we had a classroom
environment I think this would be a very efficient use of that resource.
Attendance to what could be a three hour course with all notes supplied
electronically would probably be quite good as well when you consider that
you would spend £300 at a proper training facility and in some cases end up
with crap notes unusable outside of the course.
</Pie in the Sky, dreaming again>

Harry













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