Hi All,
Have lurked in the background for a number of years, but this is something that directly affected my students, so radio silence is broken!
This sounds like an great idea - but thinking out loud at some of the issues that would need to be dealt with in advance...
I think the results would need quite a bit of editing to make it look professional (different styles of writing, approaches etc.) unless (as Matt says) this is really nailed down firmly in advance. A weekend is not a lot of time to do this!
As an alternative idea, how about a 'x chapters each' approach with a deadline? That would work better for me, and possibly others with families who expect to see them occasionally :-) Also how much would it cover theory? Knowing what to put in what config file is one thing - the why are you doing it is the important bit IMHO.
I like the direct BOK approach in terms of clarity and linkage to the objectives, but will it be usable by someone with limited experience? Often things are taught in a certain order because they logically lead on from one another and have pre-requisite knowledge.
Best regards,
Steve.
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Alessandro Selli [[email protected]]
Sent: 08 March 2017 23:37
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [lpi-examdev] dealing with the dearth of LPIC training materials
Hello everybody,
Sorry for having not joined in any discussion for months, but it
looks like something was silently dropping incoming mail from lpi.org.
On 08/03/2017 at 19:55, G. Matthew Rice wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Jeremy Hajek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for all the hard work here - I admire this serious stepping up in the
>> LPIC standards. Recently I found that the textbooks that matched the LPIC
> Hey, guys,
>
> What do you think of the idea of a 'write a book in a weekend' idea?
I'm afraid it'd take me longer than that! :-)
> I've seen it work (almost) with other books. I think they just forgot
> to put more effort into planning the book upfront.
>
> We could also make it easier by focusing on creating the Body of
> Knowledge and forget the prose. Kind of like the start of the LPIC-2
> BoK at:
>
> https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_BoK
> https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_BoK_Content_206.1_Make_and_install_programs_from_source
I could drop a few lines here and there, sure.
> FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_knowledge
>
> What do you guys think? A couple of us can work out the outline
> beforehand and then meet up online for a weekend (LPI will find a nice
> way to say thanks to the participants).
"meet up online"? How do you intend to do it?
> As well, I have at least one publisher that would be interested in
> publishing the results, too. No promises, they haven't seen what
> they're agreeing to yet ;)
Let's shock them! :-)
> The nice thing part of the BoK is that it provides more reference-able
> material for all authors; books, training material, etc.
Useful indeed.
I'd like to help. Only, I am now busy on Saturdays, too (last Saturday
I delivered the fifth of a 20 sessions LPI online course) and will be
unavailable the month of May. Still, I'd really like dropping a few
lines here and there, I probably have many already there to contribute.
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