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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu training for newbies

 

> Sounds a good idea, Just downloaded the manual that is at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual thanks to roland for posting that.

Paul, we need to thank Juanjo, he originally posted it. :-)


> if you're doing taught sesssions you really do need to be in a proper
> teaching environment,  perhaps with whiteboard etc.
>
> things like openoffice are pretty standard,  same would go for
> thunderbird etc,  so these are platform independent.
>
> remember that gnome is just a desktop environment, and most of the shell
> stuff is again available across all plat forms so using ubuntu as a base
> would be a good idea,  (you can always branch off adn talk to smaller
> groups about specifics of a distro).
>
> I contact hele hub in torquay and suggested courses in Open source /
> Linux and as with a lot of these suggestions, i get no responses. I
> recently att4ended a course in plymouth on the rfu system,  again 1.5
> hours to 2 hours is just about right.
>
> It would be nice to have an indication on demand for this sort of thing,
>  as it seems training or lack there of is a big barrier to the take up
> of Linux of any flavour.
>
> Paul

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