[SlugLUG] new sluglug site goes live and more on installfests

[Rohan Sheth]

Ah, ubuntuguide is a good idea.  It's one of the bibles any ubuntu user
should have.  

I just don't want users to think of any part of linux like
'voodoo-magic' they should have some understanding of what is going
on.  

I like the basic shell tutorial...though it might put some newbies over
their heads.

and of course...how could I forgot man pages! =)

--Rohan

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:29:18 -0700
"Eric Carter" <Ecnassianer at greenstorm.net> wrote:

> Web 2.0 for the win. ;)
> 
> I think the teaching day is a good idea, but I have some objections to
> the subjects.
> 
> > 2) Installing mp3-playback and playing mp3s (people gotta have their
> > music.)
> > 4) Getting wireless to work (tricky but possible!)
> > 6) common problems (such as sound, etc.)
> 
> These three should be solved by the time they leave the installfest.
> They're not tasks the average user needs to know how to do, and if
> they do, the installfest isn't doing what it's supposed to do.
> 
> Instead, replace them with this:
> 
> 2) The basic concept behind a text based shell, how to navigate
> directories and use simple commands (cp, mv, rm, *, ., ~,..)
> 4) How to use man, the magic keyword "howto",  the existance of
> http://ubuntuguide.org and any other self-help features available.
> 6)Installing new apps, and finding non-windows equivelents (it's
> pretty easy to google "linux office alternative" but a lot of newbs
> don't think of it.
> 
> And perhaps a short chat about what open source is, and what it
> matters to the user.
> 
> EC
> 
> On 3/20/07, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > sluglug.ucsc.edu now html refresh's users to the new site.
> >
> > Anyone can register and those who shoot me an email after
> > registering will be included into the "lug users" access group
> > which allows them to modify all content of the site.  This way even
> > when I'm behind someone else can update things.
> >
> > As per the installfest that has been up and down for a while.  I
> > would absolutely love to have an installfest.  However, out of the
> > installfests that I have personally been to...users usually swap
> > back to their other os (usually windows) very quickly because they
> > have little idea of how to use their newfound toy and become
> > irritated rapidly (*points at a few people he knows who live in his
> > very own apartment*).  I would rather have a scheduled
> > teach-session and then a specific installfest.
> >
> > So like one week we choose a day and have a "teach ubuntu" day.
> > Where a few of us (or more!) show the basics of using ubuntu and
> > the little quirks people would need to know along the way...and
> > then a following day we allow people to bring in machines and we'll
> > strap them up with ubuntu.  This way the customer stays 'happy'
> > because they know what just transpired besides the fact that
> > someone just pushed a whole bunch of buttons on their keyboard and
> > now there is this brown colored thing called gnome taking over
> > their precious computer.
> >
> > So as to these instructional meetings which precede the actual
> > installfest for a particular distro we should probably cover the
> > following:
> >
> > 1) Their new web-browsing friend: firefox
> > 2) Installing mp3-playback and playing mp3s (people gotta have their
> > music.)
> > 3) playing video/dvds
> > 4) Getting wireless to work (tricky but possible!)
> > 5) how to keep their system up to date
> > 6) common problems (such as sound, etc.)
> >
> > After a quick tutorial session like this for interested people they
> > would benefit more from the installfest simply because they would
> > understand more about the new penguin-powered operating system they
> > have on their machine.
> >
> > What do you all think?
> >
> > --Rohan
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