On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Carl Lowenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Carl Lowenstein <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM > Subject: InstallFests in February > To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> > > > That Technical Bookstore will be sponsoring a Linux InstallFest > Saturday February 7. 10am - 3pm > <http://www.thattechnicalbookstore.com> > > KPLUG <http://www.kernel-panic.org> will probably have an InstallFest > at the National City Adult Education Center. The date would be > Saturday February 21, so as not to interfere with the celebration of > President's Day and Charles Darwin's birthday. > There seems to be some doubt as to whether this low-cost facility will > continue to be available, watch for further notice.
As of today, total enrollment is up to twelve students. We are still a few short. We will have enrollment forms in the classroom Saturday. The more actual enrollments we get Saturday, the less convincing the district will need to keep the thing going in the following weeks. If you are able and interested, please enroll and help us keep the class open and the Installfests available at NCAS. The fee is $20 for the semester. As long as we can get enough enrolled students to show up for the first two or three sessions, I am prepared to be flexible as far as other commitments after that. Sign the class attendance sheet at the installfests and stay for a doughnut or a coke after that, and it will keep the average attendance high enough to keep the room available. I'll keep you posted. Robert D P.S. For the newbies who are just getting started, I have been told by the district that we can only pursue the LPI prep if we also include material for absolute beginners. This is apparently part of some new initiative to get more entry-level Linux coverage in the Adult schools. That's the rumor. On the good side, it means that Linux is finally getting looked at by the district. On the bad, it will likely slow down the migration to a pure LPI prep course. However, since I need to to it to satisfy the requirements, I will be covering the Linux desktop applications along with the LPI stuff early in the course. I plan to cover GIMP, InkScape, Scribus, OpenOffice.org, Kompozer, and Dia for sure. Depending on how things go and overall interest, I might also to a very basic look at Blender, and Pov-RAY. After that, we will cover how to set up Apache/SSL, MySQL, Postfix, vsftp, SSH, VNC, Samba, and CUPS. If you just want to learn Linux and don't care about LIP certification, the course is ready for you now. If you are looking for an LPI prep course, be patient, the remapping is in progress and we are on schedule for May 31st to have the LPIC-1 portion completed, including the updated objectives from LPI. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
