Does anyone here know if Free Geek still teaches a commandline class? I don't see any references to it (or other classes) on their website but this would have been a great example of the skills taught in that class.
If you need a creative workaround, you can look for technicians with MacOS management experience. Any T1/T2 tech who has had to work with JAMF managed devices has probably spent some time in ZSH. Oddly enough many of those people know Linux exists but have no idea how similar the commandline environment is. Most of the people working in that particular field would love an opportunity to leave the corporate tech support world ... they just don't realize it yet. ;) I just left (read: in the process of leaving) a job doing end user tech support in a corporate environment with over 77,000 employees. At least 10 of the people I worked with have never used a linux system but are more than capable of running commands in an Ubuntu terminal. Some of our KB articles for managing macOS even involved lists of shell commands. A Linux manpage would be a welcome change for many of those techs. Long story short: try looking for IT support techs with Mac MDM experience who are interested in more advanced career opportunities. Create an equivalency between an environment people already know and the scary linux beast they don't know and you might find more people. -Ben ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 at 4:07 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > Priority populations: "Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), > seniors, LGBTQIA+, immigrants and > refugees, houseless or housing insecure, foster youth, domestic > violence survivors, people impacted by > incarceration, people with disabilities, and those living in poverty" > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 3:40 PM Russell Senior > [email protected] wrote: > > > I'm involved with a grant funded project in which Personal Telco Project is > > to indoctrinate a few people in Community Networking serving a target > > population. We want people who are members of the target population, but in > > order to meet the project goals we feel like they need to start with a > > basic familiarity with Linux command line, since basically every part of > > the network management will require it. Our partners are concerned they > > won't be able to find anyone with the starting skills we have asked for. As > > someone for whom the Year of the Linux Desktop has been every year since > > 1993, I have trouble understanding their concern. We are only looking for a > > few people in the Portland metro area, and there are certainly a few such > > people here, it is just a matter of finding them and funneling them towards > > the entrance gate. We aren't in charge of selecting people, but given our > > partners concerns it seems appropriate to help them recruit potential > > candidates, and PLUG seems like a good place to start looking. > > > > I have thought about asking local community colleges that teach Linux > > skills. > > > > Any other thoughts? > > > > -- > > Russell Senior, President > > [email protected]
