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Paul Sutton wrote: > > Sounds a good idea, Just downloaded the manual that is at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual thanks to roland for posting that. > > 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 > > > Not just the training, but the follow up of help as and when needed. If we are going to spread the Linux word we need to be available for help after any training, I believe. And this is something you don't get with Windows. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html