[CS-FSLUG] Linux classes and website

[Mark Dalton]

<Off topic>
Kelly.. I used to teach kids a lot of robotics.. But I see you are working
      at  a different level (general dynamics)..  I am planning to  get into
      hydraulics sometime in the next few years to build larger walkers.
</Off topic>

I don't have a ton of time.. currently.. But I would be happy to help.
I am more of a 'hack' style of getting things to work, and I do my research.
But it is nice if someone converts it to clearer langauge and more readable.
(I tend to offer 100 ways to do the same thing, which can confuse people,
 especially with the pros and cons of each).  (See you are already 
confused). :)

I have been doing linux since 1995, firewalls, clusters, porting, 
specialized
kernels, and applications porting/optimization.   For 13 years I have been
doing HPC programming, debugging, optimization and system admin.

I did write a on-line cell biology course years ago (1994), which is 
actually
geared toward kids or newbies.  If anyone is interested in that also, I 
would
be happy to work with you to write a interactive tutorial of cell biology.

Mark
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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