[plug] Linux training for ...

[Chris Hoy Poy]

RHCE was the standard 15 years ago when I did mine. My impression is its
been watered down a bit now, but maybe that's my view through bitter tears
of experience and frustration ;-) Nothing beats having some computer
science background either,  but in general it's the attitude that makes the
tech/admin great, skills can be learnt.

Do I recall an attempt at plug mentoring a few years back? Happy to have
discussions around that at times too :-)

My advice now is more along the lines of get some linux happening, learn
some languages, get comfortable with perl, python, etc. Someone will pick
you up if you appear to be enthusiastic about it :-)

/Chris
Linux is very hands-on. Most Linux fans that I've known felt like they
learn better by playing with the OS, rather than sitting in a classroom.
The best kind of learning, based on my very personal experience (~8 years a
home user, 4 months a Linux sysadmin - long story, really), is when you
have a specific goal and you work towards it, troubleshoot, look up
answers, read man pages etc.

I can see the benefit of more formalized studying for some though,
wondering too if there's any service of that sort offered in WA.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I'm on day two of the Pawsey Supercomputer training and loving it. Thanks
> for publishing it here!
>
> During the course it occurred to me that there must be some face to face
> training around to learn about Linux.
>
> I also wondered if there was anything for small business specifically, so
> they might reap the rewards associated with Linux and Open Source.
>
> Similarly, I'm guessing that there is opportunity for education for
> students.
>
> Do such things exist in Perth or is this an opportunity for PLUG to get
> some publicity, outreach and generate income?
>
> I'm also in the middle of publishing a lot of podcasts and wonder if there
> is interest in me interviewing members and/or the OSS community for the
> same publicity, outreach and income purposes.
>
> If you're interested, I'm about to put my LCA2014 interviews up as a
> podcast - as soon as I've processed the meta data. Some Amateur Radio ones
> are already up: http://podcasts.itmaze.com.au/
>
> Would love to hear what people think about this.
> --
> finger painting on glass is an inexact art - apologies for any errors in
> this scra^Hibble
>
> ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..
>
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