Robert Donovan wrote: > 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. >
I'm planning to attend, what time does the class start? Will there be additional materials required for the class? -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D "Work to eat, eat to live, live to bike, bike to work." -- Naomi Bloom -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
