[CS-FSLUG] Linux classes and website

[Doug Coats]

I was thinking of using the Book module of Drupal this would give keep the
relationships between the topics cleanly but would also add the ability to
add threaded comments to the end of the article.

When we run our second series of classes I think that we will break them up
into the following sections:

	Series I
	Desktop Client Classes
Introduction and Installation
Configuration and Management
Application Survey
Open Office

		Series II
(Prerequisite - Series I classes)
	Administration Server Classes
Networking Setup
Networking Firewall
File Server(Samba) Installation
Samba Configuration
Sendmail Configuration
Dovecot Configuration
Apache Installation
Web Applications

Keep in mind that the things I am teaching are the things that I have used
and that have worked for us.  There are other products that may work just as
well or better - I don't deny that.  That is where the community aspect of
this project comes into play.

I will write what I know about Sendmail - You write what you know about
Postfix and we both learn something.

Obviously the list could grow and become far more specialized which would be
great as long as the novice user can read the material, follow the
instructions, and enjoy the results.

Doug Coats


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz]On Behalf Of Josiah Ritchie
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 7:37 AM
To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Linux classes and website


I think I'd enjoy taking your materials and modifying them to work with
Gentoo or pointing to links to pre-written docs. I might even learn
something along the way. :-)

BTW, I've found Mambo to be a rather impressive CMS lately. A wiki solution
might be more appropriate though from what I understand of the purpose you
present. PHPWiki is pretty popular these days.

I personally shudder at the thought of a full FC2 distro just to run DHCP
and DNS or Samba, Apache and Sendmail.

If you need LTSP info, I already co-wrote a doc at the Gentoo site that
might get you started.

JSR/

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:14:42 -0500
"Doug Coats" <dcoats at heritagemail.org> 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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