A spinoff of the 'honey, I shrunk the club' thread, I'd like this thread to take a look at the Matam (or similar courses) students. This week I gave my VIM lecture, and Taub 3 was quite literally packed with Matam students. Even after the (quite clumsy, seeing as I had to change my lecture on-the-fly) first hour - which made it clear that this lecture was not mandatory, and that the discussed material is hard to get the hang of when compared to other solutions - most people stayed for the second. Many people stayed after the lecture to ask further questions. I was very pleased, as I thoroughly enjoyed helping out Matam students last semester and the one before.
Now, I figure that Haifux's 'blood' comes from two main sources - people who are already familiar with Linux, and people who were very recently introduced to Linux for hobby/business purposes. Now, I definetely wasn't the first to figure - we're in the Technion CS faculty, people are being taught Unix and Linux - why not 'recruit' Haifux members there? And apparently, an extremely effective way to do this is to ask a friendly TA-in-charge to post a recommendation for our lectures in the course mailing list. As for content - I imagine that a rivaling Emacs lecture (which I'd love to hear, all jokes aside) is in order. But most of all, I'd very much enjoy a rerun of C without a spoon, as I only got to see one of the lectures. What are your thoughts on this? -- To necessity... and beyond! Ohad Lutzky
