Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual (Matthew East)

2008-05-07 Thread Glen Merrick
Indeed the training manual is a non-commercial license, but why not make your own: The site https://help.ubuntu.com/, if you look at the https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/newtoubuntu/C/legal.html indicates that this site is covered under the creative commons license; as is the https://help.ubuntu.com/

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-06 Thread Matthew East
Hi, On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Billy Cina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ubuntu is a free distribution and will always continue to be free. > However, this does not mean that every service provided to support Ubuntu or > its further expansion must also be free. Both the Ubuntu community and >

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread Blaise Alleyne
Glen Merrick wrote: > If you take a look around, you can find courses authorized by Ubuntu. > 2x 1 week courses to train you to be a "Ubuntu Professional" or > whatever. Each course is around 2500 dollars plus the cost of the exam. > And passing this exam will give you a designation you can put

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread George Farris
Well that's just great. Now I have to spend time writing a whole new manual. Oh well When I get it finished I will release it here as totally free. Thanks for writing a great guide and then making it next to totally useless Canonical. Hope you change your mind. Cheers all -- Ubuntu-devel-

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread Glen Merrick
rris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual > To: Billy Cina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com,Torsten Spindler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Typ

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday 05 May 2008 04:02, Billy Cina wrote: > George Farris wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:38 +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > >>> Right, so if we want to use the manual in our Community Education > >>> course to introduce and teach Ubuntu Linux while charging the student a > >>> fee for the cour

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 05 mai 2008 à 09:11 -0400, Blaise Alleyne a écrit : > Billy Cina wrote: > > George Farris wrote: > >> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:38 +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > >> > Right, so if we want to use the manual in our Community Education course > to introduce and teach Ubuntu Linux whil

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread Billy Cina
George Farris wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:38 +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > >>> Right, so if we want to use the manual in our Community Education course >>> to introduce and teach Ubuntu Linux while charging the student a fee for >>> the course, this would be okay? >>> >>> Note: these are not

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread Billy Cina
> Right, so if we want to use the manual in our Community Education course > to introduce and teach Ubuntu Linux while charging the student a fee for > the course, this would be okay? > > Note: these are not degree courses they fall into the same category as > "learn to paint" or "better life thro

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-05 Thread Blaise Alleyne
Billy Cina wrote: > George Farris wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:38 +0300, Billy Cina wrote: >> Right, so if we want to use the manual in our Community Education course to introduce and teach Ubuntu Linux while charging the student a fee for the course, this would be okay? >>>

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-02 Thread Blaise Alleyne
(Apologies if I'm repeating myself a bit... a messed up my last post to the list and it broke outside of the thread...) George Farris wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:38 +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > >>> Right, so if we want to use the manual in our Community Education course >>> to introduce an

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-05-02 Thread George Farris
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:38 +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > > Right, so if we want to use the manual in our Community Education course > > to introduce and teach Ubuntu Linux while charging the student a fee for > > the course, this would be okay? > > > > Note: these are not degree courses they fall int

Re: [Fwd: Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual]

2008-04-26 Thread Jonathan Jesse
The last I checked the Official Ubuntu Book published by Prentice Hall is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license which is sold for profit. Also the Ubuntu-Docs are licensed under the same license as well. I agree that the CC-BY_SA mihgt be better. Jonathan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubun

[Fwd: Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual]

2008-04-25 Thread Blaise Alleyne
Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday 25 April 2008 10:15, Neal McBurnett wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:53:24AM +0300, Billy Cina wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> The purpose of the license is to prevent the material being used for >>> profit-seeking purposes. If you (or anyone else) is

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-25 Thread George Farris
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:53 +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > Hi All, > > The purpose of the license is to prevent the material being used for > profit-seeking purposes. If you (or anyone else) is from a > not-for-profit institution or running community classes etc., then > this material is 100% intended

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-25 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:15:32AM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > I think the "non-commercial" part is more complicated than most people > think, and makes it less useful to both commercial and non-commercial > use. I've looked some more and here are some specifics. The definition of non-commerci

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday 25 April 2008 10:15, Neal McBurnett wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:53:24AM +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The purpose of the license is to prevent the material being used for > > profit-seeking purposes. If you (or anyone else) is from a not-for-profit > > institution o

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-25 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:53:24AM +0300, Billy Cina wrote: > Hi All, > > The purpose of the license is to prevent the material being used for > profit-seeking purposes. If you (or anyone else) is from a not-for-profit > institution or running community classes etc., then this material is 100% > i

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-25 Thread Billy Cina
Hi All, The purpose of the license is to prevent the material being used for profit-seeking purposes. If you (or anyone else) is from a not-for-profit institution or running community classes etc., then this material is 100% intended for that. Charging students minimal fees to cover expenses is al

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:53:12PM -0700, George Farris wrote: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training > > This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu. The > license says share and add to but not for commercial use. Why ion earth > would you not allow Educational Institutions t

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-18 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 23:56 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote: > On 18/04/2008, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:53 -0700, George Farris wrote: > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training > > > > > > This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu. The

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-18 Thread Caroline Ford
On 18/04/2008, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:53 -0700, George Farris wrote: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training > > > > This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu. The > > license says share and add to but not for commercial use. W

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:53 -0700, George Farris wrote: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training > > This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu. The > license says share and add to but not for commercial use. Why ion earth > would you not allow Educational Institutions to use t

Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-18 Thread George Farris
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu. The license says share and add to but not for commercial use. Why ion earth would you not allow Educational Institutions to use this material in classes. I find this very strange. Possibly th