Peace, Linux lovers! I'm hereby offering to give free/open lectures/series/courses on a variety of topics... with the proviso that the community (that's you!) help make this have an impact on Linux/FLOSS adoption locally. Right?!
I'm a professional, avid lecturer, with years of experience in the training industry, and over 20 years of programming... and militant on free software. (And, BTW, looking for work -- your help most appreciated! :o) The _least_ I'd expect is help in getting a crowd (and I mean _a crowd_) show up. And I mean newbies (!), business people... any potential Linux converts who could use a push. (I disagree with Jonathan: Linux advocacy in IL ain't over -- quite the opposite!) Tentative offerings: 1. Web applications development (see below) 2. Security (for fun and profit; see below) 3. Python vs other PLs (for programmers... and "language lawyers" :o) Topics I'd need help with/love to help others with: 4. "Unix haters" (for advanced admins; bring protective gear and iodine) 5. Symposium on "taking over the Israeli OS market": advice from marketing strategists and stories from the trenches 6. Continental philosophy... oops! off topic, just kidding et cetera. Oh, and of course I'd love to assist anyone with their own lectures, with didactics, syllabi construction, brain-storming... lots of free advice :o). I hope Hamakor will take this up. And seriously. Details? Really, off the top of my head, mere suggestions (your feedback requested): =Web applications development= A thorough, in-depth coverage of the technologies, the life-cycle, and meta issues. (Maybe a full course, or workshop, and actually building a _real-world_ site!) 1. Web technologies: the standards (IETF, W3C), accessibility (UAAG, i18n...), CGI/FCGI/Apache mods/HTTP servers, caching, hosting, virtual hosting, etc. 2. Software engineering: programming languages (dis/advantages, fitness to purpose, experiences), Web app frameworks/tools, life-cycle aspects (testing, adaptivity...), data modeling, "quality of service" aspects (confirmability, robustness...), etc. 3. Implementation: systems architecture (load balancing, middleware...), OO, persistence and pervasive paradigm, high availability. 4. Slandering Micrapsoft, pushing penguins and friends. :o) 5. Lively discussion (read: flaming), forking, early releases -- to take home! (Really, let's build a real(ly good) one! Python, Java... no PHP!) =Security= For the curious, the paranoid, the inventive, and the pragmatists... probably not for script-kiddies. 1. History: overview of how infosec/infowar began, phreaking, hacking, cracking... "Approaching Zero", "The Hacker Crackdown", "Underground", technoculture studies, free software activism, government reports (CyberCrime, Echelon...), and so on. 2. White hats: case studies, approaches to infosec (risk management; defense-in-depth), standards (ISO Common Criteria...), permission models (Bell-LaPadula, etc, expert systems)... sniffing, snooping, spoofing, snorting, scrubbing... and Satan and the Angels, too! 3. Black hats... (think so?) 4. Future: research directions, interesting stuff... 5. Micrapsoft slandering no end! And, sure enough, pushing penguins and friends. :o) And so on. I can conjure up more, if there are takers. Speak up! -- Ilan iajava(at)yahoo.com 08-946.4468 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
