Hello!
Sorry for leaving this for so long, but life has been excessively busy.
However, after reading through all the feedback from the list, and
having sat down and had a bit of a think, I'd like to attempt a training
event at Oggcamp.
I have two ideas I'd like bounce past people. The first is
Hi,
Python for Nonprogrammers session. Bit of a bring a laptop and have a
go type thing.
Brilliant idea! I had lots of trouble trying to start programming and
still struggle now. Most of the courses I have attended or guides I
have read have been very much aimed at Computer Scientists with
Python for Nonprogrammers session - Excellent Idea Matt, I am a developer
with experience in Python and I will be attending OGG camp, I'd be happy to
lend a hand, say lead a small group or something, anythig really just happy to
help.
Ant Burton - _64k
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
The Python for Non-Programmers sounds like a great thing - I have no
experience/knowledge regarding Python whatsoever, so I would quite enjoy to
give you a had!
Regards,
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Joe O'Dell
Fedora Contributor (FreeMedia)
On 18/02/10 09:29, Matthew Daubney wrote:
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I have two ideas I'd like bounce past people. The first is a practical
Python for Nonprogrammers session. Bit of a bring a laptop and have a
go type thing.
That's *almost* enough to tempt me to go all the way to Liverpool!
A thoroughly
I'm guessing it's down to WEEE, under which many companies are scared
of their kit being found irresponsibly disposed of and being traced
back to them.
This is why I can't get any from college. There are numerous health and
safety reasons why they can't give them away as well though. I will
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On training something like this sounds good
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays
Thanks for Isabell Long for finding this :)
Perhaps we can use the training materials.
Paul
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On training something like this sounds good
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays
Thanks for Isabell Long for finding this :)
Perhaps we can use the training materials.
I’ve
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Steve wrote:
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On training something like this sounds good
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays
Thanks for Isabell Long for
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Steve wrote:
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On training something like this sounds
Quoting alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
Rob Beard wrote:
A friend of mine has asked me to sort out 2 laptops, one is a P3
800 with 192MB Ram and the other is a P3 733 with 128MB Ram,
as you probably already know, an increase in ram on this class of
machine will make a vast difference in
Joe O'Dell wrote:
The not for giving away in the UK sounds a bit dubious to me, but
it doesnt matter, as long as the PCs got a good home!
I'm guessing it's down to WEEE, under which many companies are scared
of their kit being found irresponsibly disposed of and being traced
back to them.
I've
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:07:18 -, Avi Greenbury
avismailinglistacco...@googlemail.com wrote:
Joe O'Dell wrote:
The not for giving away in the UK sounds a bit dubious to me, but
it doesnt matter, as long as the PCs got a good home!
I'm guessing it's down to WEEE, under which many
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Bruno Girin wrote:
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 23:09 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hey All,
This was discussed at the last meeting, but I'm slow and should have put
this up sooner. One thing that was discussed was the idea of doing some
real life
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:52 +, Rob Beard wrote:
Quoting alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
Rob Beard wrote:
A friend of mine has asked me to sort out 2 laptops, one is a P3
800 with 192MB Ram and the other is a P3 733 with 128MB Ram,
as you probably already know, an increase in
Barry Titterton wrote:
Rob,
I have a Toshiba S1800 (P3 1 Gig 512 Ram) that was running Ubuntu until
my son fried the CMOS chip, now it will not boot. I was going to try and
sell it for spares as the screen and power supply are still working, but
you are welcome to the ram chip, or chips as
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:08 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
[snip]
Ok, last night I had a quite productive chat to the Learning team. They
are in the process of creating some course ware, and have already
created some bits and pieces. They seem to be more than happy for us to
use this, and
Quoting Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk:
Ok, last night I had a quite productive chat to the Learning team. They
are in the process of creating some course ware, and have already
created some bits and pieces. They seem to be more than happy for us to
use this, and even create more if we
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 09:04 +, Alan Bell wrote:
Overall this is a great idea. I think we need to clarify who this is
aimed at. Off the top of my head I can think of three broad
categories:
Individuals wanting to run a proper operating system at home
People wanting to introduce Ubuntu
Quoting Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk:
Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest
starting with some moderately advanced topics like how to package an
app for Ubuntu.
I was hoping to avoid this if possible. There is a _lot_ of stuff on
these already, and people
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:08:31PM +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
Another target group includes people who are still running XP, using an
older machine.
Their PC is working fine, so why should they buy a new one? Why should
they upgrade from XP when it does what they want, but isn't supported
snip
Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the positive press,
maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old PCs from businesses as
they upgrade. Just a thought.
snip
Rob
snip
Rob, that sounds a great idea
The best place to ask would be local schools and
Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the positive
press, maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old PCs from
businesses as they upgrade. Just a thought.
If needed, we have a load of old computers at college that are not being
transferred to our new building
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:14 +, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
Another target group includes people who are still running XP, using
an older machine. Their PC is working fine, so why should they buy a
new one? Why should they upgrade from XP when it does what they want,
but isn't
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On this, as mentioned before there is a manual availble from the ubuntu
site
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
its in pdf, Its also for 8.04 I assume (and hope) it will be updated
for 10.04 as that is the next lts release.
any comments on update
Joe O'Dell wrote:
Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the
positive press, maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old
PCs from businesses as they upgrade. Just a thought.
snip
Rob, that sounds a great idea
The best place to ask would be local schools and
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I've got an old XP laptop on the shelf, and I've got live CDs for Ubuntu
8.04, 8.10 and 9.04, but I can't figure out how to set the BIOS to boot
from CD on startup, because it's a Sony VAIO, and the bottom right hand
part of the screen is broken, so I can't see which keys
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My old school recently got 100+ new laptops, so the old ones may also
be free to a good home - I shall email and see!
Indeed, laptops are good for mobile training, :)
are you looking at getting all 100+ laptops. Not that I need another
one,
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +, Rob Beard wrote:
[snip]
Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our local
LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a small fee
to cover room hire we were looking at providing a free PC running Ubuntu.
Bruno Girin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +, Rob Beard wrote:
[snip]
Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our
local LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a
small fee to cover room hire we were looking at providing a
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Sods law though, after having hardly any work over the past couple of
months, I've just started contracting, so I've had to put my plans on
hold somewhat.
Rob
I am sure once we get this rolling though (when you are free) then we
may
Rob Beard wrote:
A friend of mine has asked me to sort out 2 laptops, one is a P3
800 with 192MB Ram and the other is a P3 733 with 128MB Ram,
as you probably already know, an increase in ram on this class of
machine will make a vast difference in performance
--
alan cocks
Ubuntu user #10391
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 00:38 +, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 18:43 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
[snip]
Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest
starting with some moderately advanced topics like how to package an
app for Ubuntu.
I was
2010/1/16 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk:
I've put up an idea in the ideas pool[0], and started an etherpad[1].
Does anyone else have any experience of running these kind of things who
would like to lend their expertise? What do people think would work best
in this scenario?
Please
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 11:34 +, Alan Pope wrote:
2010/1/16 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk:
I've put up an idea in the ideas pool[0], and started an etherpad[1].
Does anyone else have any experience of running these kind of things who
would like to lend their expertise? What do people
On 18/01/10 16:06, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote:
[snip]
In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide
deck as trainees will promptly forget the content. Furthermore
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 18:43 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
[snip]
Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest
starting with some moderately advanced topics like how to package an
app for Ubuntu.
I was hoping to avoid this if possible. There is a _lot_ of stuff on
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote:
[snip]
In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide
deck as trainees will promptly forget the content. Furthermore it
requires a projector, which is more equipment to
On 18/01/2010 16:06, Bruno Girin wrote:
Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest
starting with some moderately advanced topics like how to package an
app for Ubuntu. That would enable us to rehearse the process with
trainees who already know the environment, know what
Bruno Girin wrote:
I've given technical training in the past and would be happy to help.
I was impressed with the thoroughness of your summary, Bruno. Seems to
me you noted most of the elements, and outlined the relevant options.
Rather than us engaging in a long discussion, I wondered if it
I have forwarded the e-mail to the uk-hackspaces mailing list, as there are
several regional hackspaces across the UK (London, Birmingham, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds) who may be able to help - in some cases with venue and in
others with knowledge.
Regards
--
Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs LPIC-1
Overall this is a great idea. I think we need to clarify who this is
aimed at. Off the top of my head I can think of three broad categories:
Individuals wanting to run a proper operating system at home
People wanting to introduce Ubuntu into their workplace
Students wanting to use it in their
I wondered if an
option to deal with this might be to offer a short series of evening
class at the local high school (many of which run 'recreational' evening
classes), or approach the University of the Third Age or the Workers
Educational Association to offer a short course.
That sounds
On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote:
snippy snip snip
I've given technical training in the past and would be happy to help.
The first question is what type of training are we aiming for? It may be
easier to start with short sessions that can be done over a few hours,
either in the evenings
Joe wrote:
However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers so
it could be worth having a number of live USB keys with a fresh install
of Ubuntu and training material on them.
I agree, especially at my school, there would be no
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:33 -, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com
wrote:
Joe wrote:
However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers so
it could be worth having a number of live USB keys with a fresh install
of Ubuntu and
Just a quick comment about the style of training. There are four styles of
learning, which someone will naturally fall into. These, typically are put
onto a cross-hairs style graph.
Theory first
Practical second
Instructor Experimentation
Lead.
2010/1/17 Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com:
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:33 -, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com
wrote:
Joe wrote:
However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers so
it could be worth having a number of live
On 17/01/10 13:20, Colin Law wrote:
2010/1/17 Steveyorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com:
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:33 -, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com
wrote:
Joe wrote:
However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu
On 17/01/10 13:20, Colin Law wrote:
2010/1/17 Steveyorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com:
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:33 -, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com
wrote:
Joe wrote:
However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers
Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hey All,
This was discussed at the last meeting, but I'm slow and should have put
this up sooner. One thing that was discussed was the idea of doing some
real life training for people who are new to Ubuntu, through to those
who consider themselves experts.
I've
On 17/01/2010 08:09, mac wrote:
I wondered if an
option to deal with this might be to offer a short series of evening class at
the local high school (many of which run 'recreational' evening
classes), or approach the University of the Third Age or the Workers
Educational Association to offer
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 23:09 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hey All,
This was discussed at the last meeting, but I'm slow and should have put
this up sooner. One thing that was discussed was the idea of doing some
real life training for people who are new to Ubuntu, through to those
who
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