sorry for being so late on announcing this.
EGLUG will be involved in yet another partnership with a community oriented non-for-profit.
New Vision, is a young NGO working in the field of community development in Al Menya, the bulk of their work is being done by volunteers and they're very interested in the positive impact of technology on local communities.
they heard about FOSS and GNU/Linux and wanted a piece of the action so we agreed to prepare a 3 day intensive course for 4 of their volunteers on GNU/Linux desktop usage and administration and of course discuss FOSS concepts.
New Vision is also seeking our help in implementing a website using Drupal.
Schedule
Day 1 - Friday 17th (from 2pm-6pm)
- FOSS philosophy and historical background
- Installing a GNU/Linux Desktop (Mandrake 10.1)
- Using the GNU/Linux Desktop (KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla)
Day 2 - Saturday 18th (from 11am-4pm)
- Best of breed desktop apps
- Alternatives to proprietary apps
- Unique, innovative and funky apps
- Quick look at webapps
- GNU/Linux system concepts and components
- from powerup to desktop
- major subsystems and services
- filesystem hierarchy
- security model
- everything is a file
- Configuring GNU/Linux from the GUI (mandrake control center)
- How to seek help and learn more
Day 3 - Sunday 19th (from 1pm - 7pm)
- Intro to command line
- command line automation
- redirects
- pipes
- for loops
- common commands
- file utils
- text utils
- process control
- network utils
- package management
- managing media
- major config files
- misc
- CLI apps and useful packages (lynx, mc, imagemagic, mplayer/mencoder, pdfto*)
anyone interested in helping or dropping by for a while please join us.
Comments
i hope you repeat this 3 day course
i hope this intensive 3 day course can be repeated (for example each 1 or 2 month)
i have an idea let's say that you teach 7 every month who can be used in teaching others next monts ...etc
I think the course won't need more than 2 instructors (if you are teaching for 7-10 persons) so you can have one of the advanced linux users and the other instructor (Alaa , uniball, ......) and the other from normal users who can give the basic parts of the course...
yeah thats why we're testing it
the idea is nice, but it requires way tooo much to give a course like that, not sure how often we can repeat it.
not every month though, maybe 4 times a year or less.
and no more than 6 participants I think.
Alaa
"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"