[CS-FSLUG] Linux classes and website

[Josiah Ritchie]

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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