[Gllug] Facilities for Free Open Source Beginners

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Chris Bell wrote:
>    Yes, but how do you get the message across? The person at Ealing
> Adult Learning has not heard of anything other than Microsoft,
> previous experience shows that people are unwilling to even try
> running something like Knoppix

I guess you could reel off some figures about how this is a rapidly
expanding market, and so any skills people pick up are comparatively
more useful/marketable than windows skills?

Chris Bell wrote:
>    Is that a course on using the Ubuntu desktop, similar to Microsoft
> "courses" on finding the mouse buttons, or a proper introduction to
> the world of Open Source installation, configuration, and use?

It's mostly about how to use Ubuntu. The PDF version is linked from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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