On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Ezra Banoba wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 17:05 +0300, Lule George William wrote:
> > I don't know whether the "them" refers to EACOSS or to the courses.
> > If it refers to EACOSS (http://www.eacoss.org), it is a newly opened 
> > organisation that is fully dedicated to the spread of OSS within the East 
> > African community (hence the name EACOSS). However as many of us are well 
> > aware, without a skilled enough workforce in the RIGHT NUMBERS, this may not 
> > be an easy target to hit. So for that matter training has ended up being of 
> > paramount importance in EACOSS' activities and taking center stage. Of course 
> > also other avenues of making sure that OSS takes root within the region are 
> > being explored.
> > If it refers to the courses, there are two courses currently on offer at 
> > EACOSS, namely Basic System Administration (EAC 103) which is both a day and 
> > evening program and Complete Networking and System Administration using Linux 
> > based Systems (EAC102) which initially is going to be a 5 day fulltime 
> > intensive course to be offered by a Linux expert from the Netherlands.
> 
> I dont mean to sound pessimistic but Does someone really have to fly in
> to teach guys how to use Linux? 
> How possible is it to pickup Complete Networking and System
> Administration using Linux based systems in 5 days?

some individuals lern better when they are instructed (not though 
necesarily by someone that has flown in - but it just may feel a little 
reassuring).

ernest.

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