[clue-admin] KISS Session ---> Desktop Linux 101

[Collins Richey]

On 1/11/06, Jeff Cann <jccann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Over beers last night, Todd Trichler suggested a good idea for the languishing
> KISS sessions.  In his extensive experience as a Linux evangelist Todd told
> us that to open our meetings to a wider [newbie] audience, we should focus on
> how to get people from Windows to Linux.  The folks at the table agreed and
> I'm putting it out to the admin list for comments.
>
> The idea is to develop a list of desktop tutorial items for a series of KISS
> sessions.

Fantastic idea. Other than the potentially builtin Oracle audience,
how do we go about attracting more newbies?

>
> Todd's ... idea of the desktop training is meant to  help bring people in and give them
> something to take home and use immediately.
>

Also an excellent idea.

>
> I think we should change the name of the KISS session to something like 'Linux
> Training for Windows Users' or 'Desktop Linux 101' so it better reflects the
> content.

Or Linux for New Users, or ??? I would prefer to avoid the Windows moniker.

>
> As an adjunct to the Desktop Linux series, I think we should have a pile of
> the runnable versions kbuntu and/or ubuntu disks for newbies every month (or
> Knoppix).

I can certainly burn a few, but I can't produce fancy labels. We can
also order some free sets directly from Ubuntu. Knoppix would be good,
too, but they have the world's slowest servers for download.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan
_______________________________________________
CLUE-admin mailing list
CLUE-admin at cluedenver.org
http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-admin