[plug] PLUG sponsored newbie tutorials

[sol]

I forgot to mention that my aim is to start the newbies course in the first 
week of August, on whatever day it is that we organise it for.
sol

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:28, sol wrote:
> > Someone brought this up a while ago.. is there anything happening on this
> > front? I'd still love to give a few tutes on the user side, maybe even a
> > Perl intro?
>
> 'Twas me I admit it. I'd shelved it for a month or two, though i have been
> giving it some thought and enquiring about a venue. I was going to save the
> first meeting until June with the aim of starting a 10-12 week "Intro to
> Linux/Open Source for Newbies" but am presently considering bringing it
> forward because I'd like to be well prepared and do lots of publicity to
> gets the crowds in.
> I'm going to take Monday night off work to go to the workshop @ UCC. If
> anyone interested in helping out with this please accost me (I'm the tall,
> skinny, ugly guy with glasses - no, not that one, the other one ;-) )
> Perhaps a preliminary meeting may be arranged.
>
> > I'm not a guru, but i think i could save a few boobs :)
>
> Neither am I. Infact I'm not far off newbie myself, and that's perhaps one
> of the reasons I want to do this. The memories of being absolutely confused
> are still fresh in my mind. Plus I desperately want to see a decent
> software regime being used in education, my field of study.
> BTW, a set of tutorials for more advanced topics has been discussed and is
> on the cards (ie: shell scripting, networking, etc) but we thought that
> we'd get first things done first. :-)
>
>
> regards,
>
> sol
>
> > mn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DJ Jackson [mailto:djackson at transport.wa.gov.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 4:53 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] PLUG sponsored newbie tutorials
> >
> >
> > This would be mint for me , plus save a few boob and meet a few gurus..
> > Sign me up!!!
> >
> > John Knight wrote:
> > > However,
> > >
> > > >I
> > > >do think that it would be worth asking "students" if they're
> > > > interested
> > >
> > > I'd be right effing interested! I need to know what the 'ell I'm doing
> >
> > when
> >
> > > it comes to kernel compilation and I could do with a command line touch
> >
> > up.
> >
> > > Would there be any networking involvement?
> > >
> > > anarchist tomato
> > >
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