[CS-FSLUG] Linux classes and website

[Kelly Luckenbaugh]

Doug Coats wrote:

>I would like to throw out an idea to you guys and gals and see who is
>interested.
>
>I got started in Linux 4 years ago through a friend of our school who wanted
>to show us how to use the power of Linux to get us the same tools that the
>large corporations use at the low cost of my learning how to use it.  So far
>it has gone very well!  After the 3rd year I even started to realize that I
>knew most of what I was doing.
>
>About this time last year I sent a message off to the group about starting
>some Linux classes and asked for suggestions about what you thought would be
>good to include and how I should proceed.  (Thank you for all of you who
>played along)
>
>This summer we taught 6 classes all about 4 hours long that covered
>installation, configuration, networking, Samba, Apache, & Sendmail.
>Basically I wanted a class that I wished I had 4 years ago when I first go
>started.  Our drive is to help other nonprofits benefit from Linux and our
>experience.  Overall I would rate them as a success for getting our feet
>wet.  In the future I think we will spread them out and have two different
>sections (one for the curious and one for the administrator).
>
>So here is my thought:
>
>We could start a website that mirrored the classes that we teach with the
>lessons so that the students could visit and revisit the concepts and
>configurations as needed.
>
>Here is where some of you might come in:
>
>I have only worked with RedHat and Fedora (Simply because that is what I
>know and I have no time to "play" with anything else.  If any of you are
>interested you could write the same class material (covering the same
>subjects) for other distributions where they differed from how FC does it.
>
>That way if a person wanted to learn to setup a network using DHCP they
>would follow the appropriate links and then choose a distribution.
>
>We could all share our knowledge and experiences and learn new things in the
>process.
>
>I figure we could use something like Drupal as our CMS and even give whoever
>uses the site the ability to comment and add content if we wanted to.
>
>What do you think?  Anyone interested?
>
>Doug Coats
>
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Doug,

  I'm potentially in. I work at a robotics engineering facility. We use 
many different distros for many different apps.  I am currently using 
SUSE 9.1, Mandrake 10, Yoper V2.  We started out utilizing all versions 
of RedHat (7.2-Core2). I have worked with the Enterprise Server.
  We hit networking issues hard, along with QT apps for user interfaces 
( I'm more involved in networking and hardware configuration, wireless, 
TCP/IP, SSH, Radio Commo, etc).
  If I can help, get back to me. Maybe some unnofficial quiz to check 
out my story. That would be kinda cool.

Thanks for the idea,

Kelly Luckenbaugh