[plug] Linux training for home newbies

[Mr E_T]

On Monday 19 September 2005 08:47, Alex Polglaze wrote:
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> Senectus . wrote:
> 
> > I can't see this becoming a reality too soon, the resources of our
> > little group are already showing signs of being tapped beyond their
> > availabilities.
It was just a thought - somthing to get ppl interested in linux
> 
> 
> Plus Bill's sentiments also added here.
> 
> The most knowledgeable Linux people in this city are generally subscribers to 
> this list. So, what we need to do is to present a united, professional front and 
> as an organisation, approach TAFE to supply lecturers for a course. They have 
> all the infrastructure and can do the advertising etc.
Sounds good
> 
> As a group, we need to provide a coherent, sensible training course to Linux. By 
> this I mean, we don't start out that there are 27 flavours of Linux and you can 
> do this with this and you need that with that. This may offend some devotees of 
> particular distros, but the fact remains that divide and conquer is the 
> effective strategy employed by us to stop any main stream penetration.
Just concentrate on the common basics - mounts devices networking etc.
> 
> Who would be the lecturers?
I got my start in linux at tafe doing Computer Programing.
They used to have a unix mainframe system. It shouldnt be too hard to get them to
introduce a linux basics unit.

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