[CS-FSLUG] Linux classes and website

[Josiah Ritchie]

Sounds cool to me. I'm not familiar with the Book module of Drupal, but
sounds like it would work. Drupal is a very flexible tool.

JSR/

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:06:56 -0500
"Doug Coats" <dcoats at heritagemail.org> wrote:

> 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-----
> From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz
> [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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